[123040] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wade Peacock)
Fri Feb 26 15:05:54 2010
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:05:30 -0800
From: Wade Peacock <wade.peacock@sunwave.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1267213601.3736.1.camel@petrie>
Reply-To: wade.peacock@sunwave.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
That does make sense. I will try to simulate that with a temporary
virtual machine as a different timezone.
Wade
>> aha! there you go, mine doesn't but maybe yours does?
>
> The specification for the syslog protocol is that timestamps embedded in
> the message should be used instead of syslogd's time. Most syslog
> daemons as a result apply this concept to both local and remote
> messages.
>
> You have to keep in mind that syslogd can also send/receive messages
> to/from remote destinations.
>
> William
>
>
