Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:35:45 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Misleading security message output Message-ID: <42641A21.5080208@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050418103032.9618.REES@ddcom.co.jp> References: <200504170655.27864.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <20050417225347.GA9600@gurney.reilly.home> <20050418103032.9618.REES@ddcom.co.jp>
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Joel wrote: [ ... ] > Maybe it's because I'm such a newb, but I'm wondering which program has > what bug? Is it that the default configuration files for the login logs > doesn't put on age limit on the rotation? Is it that the log lines don't > conain a full 4-digit year in the timestamp? This last one is correct: the standard syslog format doesn't include a 4-digit year value in the timestamp. All sorts of nasty logfile rolling and parsing issues would be made much easier to do right if it did... -- -Chuck
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