On 8/13/2026 11:52 PM, Mike wrote:
On 8/13/2026 10:25 PM, Mike wrote:
On 8/13/2026 9:48 PM, Mike wrote:
Apologies, I should have also provided...
OpenBSD 7.9 AMD64.
And the default syslog-ng.conf file.
At this point I am considering just staying with my patches to the
OpenBSD syslogd to get the time format I prefer.
But, please allow me to ask a question ...
If I were to submit a patch to syslogd to allow the ISO format in local
time, is that something that might be looked at?
Maybe, instead of in rc.conf.local ...
syslogd_flags=-Z
there might be an option
syslogd_flags=-L
Submitting patches is not a new thing for me (please see ntpctl).
But I do have to say, I am getting old and my c coding skills are waning...
But, I'll try to rally for this ...
fwiw,
the current patch file I use is:
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--- syslogd.c.orig Thu Jun 26 15:10:13 2025
+++ syslogd.c Sat May 30 17:41:22 2026
@@ -1788,13 +1788,13 @@
struct tm *tm;
size_t l;
- tm = gmtime(&now.tv_sec);
+ tm = localtime(&now.tv_sec);
l = strftime(timestamp, 33, "%FT%T", tm);
/*
* Use only millisecond precision as some time has
* passed since syslog(3) was called.
*/
- snprintf(timestamp + l, 33 - l, ".%03ldZ", now.tv_usec / 1000);
+ snprintf(timestamp + l, 33 - l, ".%03ld", now.tv_usec / 1000);
} else
strlcpy(timestamp, ctime(&now.tv_sec) + 4, 16);
}
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But I do understand that changes would need to be made beyond that patch
file. Options parsing, man descriptions, etc ....
I'll try ...
