Piszcz, Thank you for taking the time to look into my problem.. My system's time works, the output of the date command shows: "Fri Sep 10 10:43:35 EDT 2004". You mentioned that you have been using ULOG since version 1.0 with no problems in the timestamp feature, but i did see something in the changelog about a timestamp fix for version 1.02: ===changelog====================================== ulogd (1.02-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. - fixed timestamp printing in LOGEMU (closes: Bug#208506) * debian/patches/ulogd-version.patch: - this is really ulogd 1.02 ===end changelog=================================== Unlike yourself tho i installed from binary. I wonder also if this could be because im running a 2.6.7 kernel.. what kernel do you use? -thanx steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Piszcz, Justin Michael" <justin.piszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Steve Melo" <smelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:41 AM Subject: RE: ULOGD and invalid timestamps I have never had a problem with the timestamp in any version of ulogd since 1.00, 1.01 or 1.02. What does the following show: % date Where did you obtain/how did you install ulogd? I used the source in all three versions. -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Melo Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:31 PM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: ULOGD and invalid timestamps Greetings list, I'm using the ulogd to log information and everything works great except that everything that gets logged has a timestamp of "Dec 31 19:00:00". I would like to have the correct timestamp. Here is my setup: Debian Linux w/2.6.7-1-686 kernel (binary install) ulogd Version 1.02 iptables v1.2.9 Here is my /etc/ulogd.conf: # netlink multicast group (the same as the iptables --ulog-nlgroup param) nlgroup 1 # logfile for status messages logfile /var/log/ulog/ulogd.log # loglevel: debug(1), info(3), notice(5), error(7) or fatal(8) loglevel 5 # socket receive buffer size (should be at least the size of the # in-kernel buffer (ipt_ULOG.o 'nlbufsiz' parameter) rmem 131071 # libipulog/ulogd receive buffer size, should be > rmem bufsize 150000 # ulogd_BASE.so - interpreter plugin for basic IPv4 header fields # you will always need this plugin /usr/lib/ulogd/ulogd_BASE.so plugin /usr/lib/ulogd/ulogd_LOCAL.so # # ulogd_LOGEMU.so - simple syslog emulation target # # where to write to syslogfile /var/log/ulog/syslogemu.log # do we want to fflush() the file after each write? syslogsync 1 # load the plugin plugin /usr/lib/ulogd/ulogd_LOGEMU.so # # ulogd_OPRINT.so: file for packet dumping # # where to write the log dumpfile /var/log/ulog/pktlog.log # load the plugin (remove the '#'if you want to enable it plugin /usr/lib/ulogd/ulogd_OPRINT.so