Hello Thorsten Glaser.

Thanks for your bug report.

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 09:08:18AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Package: bsdutils
> Version: 1:2.26.2-9
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think this is a new bug. I saw logs from August interspersed
> with logs from September in my syslog (after first thinking
> something had reset the time, as the machine crashed hard on
> the weekend too), but it turns out this is simply a bug in
> logger. Reproducer:
> 
> tglase@tglase:~ $ (echo foo; sleep 5; echo bar) | logger -t baz
> tglase@tglase:~ $ fgrep baz: /var/log/syslog                                  
>                              
> Sep  7 09:04:34 tglase baz: foo
> Sep  7 09:04:34 tglase baz: bar
[...]

Given you have reproducible testcase, in case you're interested in
seeing this issue resolved you could run git bisect to find out
in which exact commit this regression was introduced - which would
narrow the scope on where to look for the issue.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

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