Re: Changes in the syslog date format?

[local10 <local10@tutanota.com>]

Nov 5, 2022, 09:55 by scdbackup@gmx.net:

> Hi,
>
> local10 wrote:
>
>> Any ideas as to get the old syslog date format back?
>>
>
> The internet points to /etc/rsyslog.conf and in there:
>
>  #
>  # Use traditional timestamp format.
>  # To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line.
>  #
>  $ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat
>


Doesn't seem to work for me.


I didn't have "$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat" line in the /etc/rsyslog.conf file so I added it but it didn't change the syslog date format for some reason:

# cat /etc/rsyslog.conf 
...
$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat



# systemctl restart rsyslog.service
#
# systemctl status  rsyslog.service
● rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2022-11-05 06:25:57 EDT; 5s ago
TriggeredBy: ● syslog.socket
       Docs: man:rsyslogd(8)
             man:rsyslog.conf(5)
             https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/
   Main PID: 157593 (rsyslogd)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 8813)
     Memory: 2.7M
        CPU: 6ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/rsyslog.service <http://system.slice/rsyslog.service>
             └─157593 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE

Nov 05 06:25:57 tst systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 05 06:25:57 tst systemd[1]: Stopped System Logging Service.
Nov 05 06:25:57 tst rsyslogd[157593]: imuxsock: Acquired UNIX socket '/run/systemd/journal/syslog' (fd 3) from systemd.  [v8.2210.0]
Nov 05 06:25:57 tst systemd[1]: Starting System Logging Service...
Nov 05 06:25:57 tst rsyslogd[157593]: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.2210.0" x-pid="157593" x-info="https://www.rsyslog.com";] start
Nov 05 06:25:57 tst systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service.



# cat /var/log/syslog
...
2022-11-05T06:25:57.617308-04:00 tst systemd[1]: Stopping System Logging Service...
2022-11-05T06:25:57.672637-04:00 tst systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: Deactivated successfully.
2022-11-05T06:25:57.672835-04:00 tst rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.2210.0" x-pid="157518" x-info="https://www.rsyslog.com";] exiting on signal 15.
2022-11-05T06:25:57.672895-04:00 tst systemd[1]: Stopped System Logging Service.
2022-11-05T06:25:57.673264-04:00 tst rsyslogd: imuxsock: Acquired UNIX socket '/run/systemd/journal/syslog' (fd 3) from systemd.  [v8.2210.0]
2022-11-05T06:25:57.673332-04:00 tst systemd[1]: Starting System Logging Service...
2022-11-05T06:25:57.673386-04:00 tst rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.2210.0" x-pid="157593" x-info="https://www.rsyslog.com";] start
2022-11-05T06:25:57.673437-04:00 tst systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service.



Regards,