[syslog-ng] syslog doesn't log if system date is older than date on last reboot

[Nagy Gábor]

Hello!

We have seen issues like this in case of systemd, but I dont know if your
embedded system runs systemd.

Can you share your configuration, please?
Are you using system() source?

Regards,
Gábor

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, 08:33 Abhi Arora, <engr.abhiarora at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have one embedded device running Linux which doesn't have RTC. So it
> loses date and time after every reboot.
>
> uname -a returns:
>
> Linux f1 4.9.175+g0746276 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 14 03:09:19 UTC 2020
> armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
>
> I have observed after every reboot, my board starts with some older time
> and my application running in user-space corrects the system time from a
> timestamp saved on a file (which is updated every hour). Application also
> connects with some server to get latest time. I have noticed that if system
> date and time is less than date and time which it had at last shutdown,
> then syslog doesn't get any logs from my applications till it has a time
> atleast greater than  date and time which it had at last shutdown.
>
> Please help me in debugging the issue and fixing it.
>
>
>
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