[syslog-ng] syslog-ng doesn't log if system date is older (in the past) than date on last shutdown

[Ruben Safir]

On 2/18/20 3:22 AM, Abhi Arora wrote:
> Hi,
> I have one embedded device running Linux which doesn't have RTC. So it
> loses date and time after every halt.
> 
> *uname -a:*
> *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.


so what is the problem?


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