On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:08:30PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
| hello and happy new year,
|
| during the christmas holidays i have upgraded my
| openbsd servers to 6.2 and i have noticed that
| the timestamps for newsyslog 'logfile turned over' lines
| changed to something like ISO 8601:
|
| $ zgrep turned /var/log/messages*
| messages:2017-12-31T23:00:01.258Z selene newsyslog[32157]: logfile turned over
| messages.0.gz:Dec 1 00:00:01 selene newsyslog[4410]: logfile turned over
| messages.0.gz:2017-12-31T23:00:01.258Z selene newsyslog[32157]: logfile
turned over
| messages.1.gz:Nov 1 00:00:01 selene newsyslog[27587]: logfile turned over
| messages.1.gz:Dec 1 00:00:01 selene newsyslog[4410]: logfile turned over
| messages.2.gz:Oct 1 00:00:01 selene newsyslog[73773]: logfile turned over
| messages.2.gz:Nov 1 00:00:01 selene newsyslog[27587]: logfile turned over
|
| i have a monthly rotation set up in newsyslog.conf
|
| is anybody else seeing this?
Yep, was by design.
See the -Z option to syslogd. Note that the logfile turned over entry
is not written by syslogd but by newsyslog, see revision 1.102 of
newsyslog.c:
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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