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

[Abhi Arora]

Hi,
Please let me know if I have missed anything. I really have to debug this
issue. Please help me with some pointer as I am clueless.

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:59 PM Abhi Arora <engr.abhiarora at gmail.com> wrote:

> Continuing my previous email....
> > Can you share your configuration, please?
> I have shared over my last email
>
> > Are you using system() source?
> I didn't get you. Please elaborate. You mean source code system() library
> function. If that you mean, then no we don't use it.
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:24 PM Nagy Gábor <gabor.hl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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