Re: [exim] Syslog date/time occurs twice

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Author: Bertrand Caplet
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Syslog date/time occurs twice
Hey,

Sorry for the up but it's still causing me trouble.
Does anyone know how to disable this double timestamp for exim log in
syslog ?

Thanks in advance,

Le 2018-07-16 19:35, Bertrand Caplet a écrit :

> Hey there,
> I noticed that exim is adding date/time stamp before sending to syslog.
>
> It is ok for mainlog as it seems put by exim directly :
>
> /2018-07-16 02:10:19 dovecot_login authenticator failed for
> (example.net) [164.39.218.210]: 535 Incorrect authentication data
> (set_id=postmaster)/
>
> But it syslog there's syslog time/date stamp + exim date/time stamp :
>
> /Jul 16 02:10:19 hostname exim[5734]: 2018-07-16 02:10:19 dovecot_login
> authenticator failed for (example.net) [164.39.218.210]: 535 Incorrect
> authentication data (set_id=postmaster)/
>
> It's causing trouble for my fail2ban regex. Is there a way to disable
> this date/time stamp ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Regards,


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