Re: how to log date/time in daemon mode?
Hans Carlson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.fetchmail.user |
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| Message-ID | <alpine.LFD.2.02.1810010946110.32295@xippy> |
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, grarpamp wrote: >> This makes the log entries look like this: >> >> fetchmail [2018/09/29 17:04:41]: 2 messages for ... >> fetchmail [2018/09/29 17:04:42]: reading message ... >> >> Here's the patch I used for 6.3.26... > > Try reading and adopting a valid iso8601 standard format for timestamps > instead of the above which are nonconformant and ambiguous in multiple > ways. Feel free to change the format however you like. This patch was a "quick fix" for something I found annoying with the fetchmail logs... nothing more than that. I saw someone else with a similar need and provided an option. I understand your point and it's a very good one, but I intentionally selected that format because it's what I want. It gives me exactly the information I need and no more. It is not ambiguous (to ME, for MY purposes) in any way. Different people have different needs... so I'll amend my original suggestion a bit... Someone a bit more enterprising than me could probably submit a patch with some kind of config file option (eg. log_timestamp) to do something similar. It would be wise to also add a config file option that specified the format for the timestamp, with the default timestamp something more universally acceptable and standard than the format I used.