On 29/05/17 23:18, Björn Persson wrote: > Björn 'besser82' Esser wrote: >> Does this qualify to be a system-wide change? To me this looks like >> a self-contained change, since I don't see any other packages or >> processes in need for adjustment, but rsyslog itself. > > I'll be surprised if there aren't any programs that parse the system > log and will need to understand the standard timestamp format. One can > hope that they all understand it already, but the review that's needed > to determine that is in my opinion reason enough to treat it as > system-wide. One such program which strikes my mind instantly is logwatch ... how will that cope this change? That said, this change does make a lot of sense; as long as log parses won't choke and die. And those tools should be fixed in these cases, don't revert this needed log format change. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
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