On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Alexey Promokhov wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Robert Mognet wrote:
>
> > > Is there a simple way to stop exim from putting date&time in front of all
> > > syslog messages? This one should be a RTFM-questions, but I couldn't found
> > > it there... any hints? Thanks in advance!
> > I'm not certain, but I think it's syslogd that puts the timestamp
> > on the log entries.
> Both exim and syslogd does that.
Correct. It was argued that it was useful to have exactly the same
output available via syslog, so you could extract it and, for example,
run eximstats on it. Also, the times may vary.
> Look at here (this is syslogd output):
>
> Feb 6 13:41:12 linuxbox exim[1059]: 2001-02-06 10:41:12 SMTP connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] closed by QUIT
> Feb 6 13:41:28 linuxbox exim[1083]: 2001-02-06 10:41:28 Start queue run: pid=1083
> Feb 6 13:41:28 linuxbox exim[1083]: 2001-02-06 10:41:28 End queue run: pid=1083
That's a nice example where the times *do* vary, and by quite a lot!
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