Helo syslog guru's ;) Current entries in syslogd files like /var/log/{messages,warn} etc. look like: Mar 6 18:15:30 yourhost somed[pid]: bla from somed. However, I would like to have the date in ISO 8601 format, which is CCYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS ref: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html (strictly speaking this is not true; there are several formats, but the so-called extended format looks like: CCYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS, note the "T" conjunctor). But anyways, I would like to have something like: 2000-03-06 18:15:30 yourhost somed[pid]: bla from somed. because I find it has better sorting characteristics and lends itself better to unified processing (note that more and more programs, like Samba and gpg are already using this format). I could not find, however, how to influence this format (well, other than recompiling syslogd ;-), as can be done with some other programs where you can influence a LogFormat strftime(3)-wise like %{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t ? (I looked in the man pages of syslog, syslogd and syslog.conf and looked in /etc/syslog.conf). Or should I set some LOCALE that supports this date format and is used by programs such as syslogd? Bye-bye, Eric Maryniak -- Eric Maryniak <e.maryniak@pobox.com> Home page: http://pobox.com/~e.maryniak/ University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology. Tel/Fax: +31 20 5256853/6391656. Internet: http://www.neuromod.org/ My software never has bugs. It just develops random featur zero division: core dumped. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/