On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:09:07PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > This would likely need to also be implemented in postscreen. :-( If
> > keyword-substitution is supported, apart from $pid, and $client_addr
> > also $rfc822_date would perhaps be useful to help search logs for the
> > right day.
>
> PID logging isn't useful with postscreen(8) because there is only
> one process, so I'll add a localtime attribute. The rfc822_date
> string seems too long to be useful; we need something that people
> can use in a phone call.
So long as localtime is date + time: often help queries get to the
right people days after the original event, and it is important to
know when the reported issue is purported to have happened.
--
Viktor.
