On 17 February 2012 19:04, Roger Marquis <marq...@roble.com> wrote: > Sergey Kandaurov wrote: >> >> In IETF this RFC is marked obsolete and replaced with RFC 5424 with >> different timestamp format in ISO 8601 form. FreeBSD doesn't implement >> 5424 yet. Almost complete implementation was done in NetBSD in that >> regard in 2008. NetBSD before RFC 5424 changes has had pretty similar >> syslogd source, so if one could analyze and port that changes to FreeBSD, >> that would be pretty nice. > > > Problem with that would be backwards compatibility, and it's not IMO > worth breaking everyone's syslog parsing scripts to fix an issue that > really isn't due to the date format as much as it is to log rotation. >
That is not a showstopper. Nothing prevents to merge both formats in one daemon and introduce a new syslogd option to choose the desired format. -- wbr, pluknet _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
