Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 14:41:24 -0600 From: Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Auth.log Message-ID: <838D4C4C-CDFA-11D8-BF6E-000393801C60@g-it.ca>
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I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 and I noticed that /var/log/auth.log does not include year (YYYY) in the log entries. My daily cron jobs recently sent notice that there were some failed login attempts on July 3 to an account that was removed many months ago. This raised concern, so I did a thorough check and determined that the failed login attempt occurred July 03 of 2003, _not_ 2004. Shouldn't auth.log include the full YYYY-MM-DD date to avoid confusion in case auth.log doesn't rotate between years? This should apply to all logs, especially security related logs... Thanks, -- Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies
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