Re: RFC-3339 Dates

Here's a patch that was submitted to redhat, and accepted by the folks 
at OpenSUSE

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=407611&action=diff


On 6/4/13 2:18 PM, George Sexton wrote:
> The problem I ran into is the regular expression (at least I think it was
> this way) kind of depended on being able to split the line on some white
> space. I messed with the REGEX and just couldn't get it right. I can
> pretty much spot the areas that need changed. It's how to change them
> that's causing problems for me. I'll admit, I'm not a perl guy, and I'm
> only so-so at regular expressions.
>
> George Sexton
> MH Software, Inc.
> 303 438-9585
> www.mhsoftware.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stefan [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 2:07 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Logwatch-devel] RFC-3339 Dates
>>
>>
>> George S.:
>>> Hi there. I'm using Logwatch on OpenSUSE 12.3, and the distribution
>> has
>>> changed the format of their log files to:
>>>
>>> YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.FFFF-ZZZZ
>> Is this more related to rsyslog than opensuse? I run openSUSE 12.3 with
>> syslog-ng and still have the "old" syslog date format.
>>
>>> I've poked around through the code to try to figure out how to change
>>> Logwatch to read this format, but I'm just not getting it right. Can
>> you
>>> give me an idea on what to change, and what the change should look
>> like?
>>
>> You have to edit the shared scripts applystddate and removeheaders.
>> Eventually
>> also the other apply*date scripts. They are located in
>> /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/shared.
>>
>>> I've submitted it as a bug to OpenSUSE a few weeks ago, but so far
>>> there's been no action. I'd post this the sourceforge forum, but
>>> response there seems pretty random.
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate any help you would be willing to give. If you give me
>> a
>>> fix, I'll submit it as a patch to OpenSUSE.
>> Regards
>> Stefan
>>
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George Sexton
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