at the moment I parse huge logfiles like /var/log/messages and I am suprised that the date string doesn't include the year in the timestamp. can I configure the logfile format to include the year number ? thank you best regards marcel -- Marcel Lanz http://www.ds9.ch/lanz/ marcel.lanz@dkmp.org | marcel.lanz@computer.org GnuPG: F975 C6F7 04C8 642B 6DF4 4DF4 2945 F02A 797E 7DAB