I would like to process Cyrus logs and do some date arithmetic. But this is difficult because Syslog does not log the year, only month and day. And changing Syslog date format involves recompiling its source, and risking breaking other program that depend on Syslog's default date format.
One solution would be Cyrus to append a timestamp to every entry it sends to syslog. This timestamp would be in UNIX time. What parts of Cyrus source must I change to achieve this?
Cyrus doesn't use any abstraction layer to call syslog(), so you either need to change every syslog() call in the source, or write something like a SYSLOG() macro which does the timestamp append and calls syslog.
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