On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:21:47AM +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:16:01AM +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > > * Added option '-t' (time stamp); socklog.c modified. > > > > What is this for? The timestamp normally is added by the logger > > process, usually the svlogd program. Can you tell me a use case where > > this is needed? > > Yes. I run socklog from the command line and use it to watch the > syslog activity of an embeded system under development. In some cases, > timing is important.
Hmm, the daemontools package includes the tai64n program which can be used for this, e.g. # socklog unix /dev/log |tai64n Maybe it's better to add a similar program to the runit package. I'll think about it. Thanks, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
