Andrew Buckeridge <andr...@bgc.com.au> writes:
> Package: syslog-ng
> Version: 3.1.3-3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> See also #353744 and #174038 of sysklogd.
>
> A small change to syslog-ng could make logs useful.
> Could then use as default to solve #353744 and #174038.
Well, #353744 doesn't matter, since this *is* configurable in syslog-ng,
and it supports the ISO format too, so #353744 does not apply, neither
does #174038, for the same reason.
The problem is, that we can't just change the default, as software
relying on the legacy year-less format would then break. So for the sake
of compatibility, the default will need to stay as is, in my opinion.
I believe it is best to leave the administrator set this flag, and leave
the default as-is. Since syslog-ng.conf is a conffile, the admin can
change it, and add this option. Even better, with the syslog-ng 3.3
packages, that support conf.d/-style included fragments, you can even
drop this into /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/99-ts-format.conf:
,----
| options { ts_format(rfc3339); };
`----
And it will just work, assuming that one uses the default syslog-ng.conf
that comes with syslog-ng 3.3 (or has an @include
"/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/" line in that file).
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