quoth the John Hicks: > > You don't explain much about your setup here, but on mine, I just write > > my errors to the apache error log, which provides its own timestamp. > > > > Another option is to log to the system logs: > > error_log = syslog # in php.ini > > > > and use your loggers filter facilities to keep the php messages in a > > separate file. Again, here syslog will provide its own timestamp. > > > > -d > > Thanks for the feedback, Darren! > > So at least one person in the world does get a filestamp in his error > messages. That's useful information. From my googling I see number of > references to the absence of timestamps so I was beginning to think that > was the norm. > > Mine is a RHES4 box running the RH default configuration of PHP 4.3.9 > (RedHat's latest). > > Please let me know your distribution and PHP version so I can start to > narrow this down. > > Thanks! > > John Hey, I am using Gentoo and PHP 5.1.2 with the hardened patch, but I am pretty sure the logging is identical to php4, as I only upgraded to 5 a few months ago, In any event, how is your logging set up in php.ini? In mine I have: display_errors = Off log_errors = On "error_log" is commented out, and this causes php to write directly to my Apache error_log, which as I mentioned, provides the timestamp itself. I am not sure on this point, but if you have your "error_log" set to /some/random/file and you do not see a timestamp then I think it is safe to conclude that PHP does not provide this facility itself. So, if you need the timestamp you might need to use Apache's or syslog's logging facilities instead. HTH By the way, please CC the list so that others may benefit from this discussion... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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