Re: rsyslogd pkg - trying to get it to work ...

On 8/13/2026 11:52 PM, Mike wrote:
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> On 8/13/2026 10:25 PM, Mike wrote:
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>> On 8/13/2026 9:48 PM, Mike wrote:
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>> Apologies, I should have also provided...
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>> OpenBSD 7.9 AMD64.
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>> And the default syslog-ng.conf file.
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> At this point I am considering just staying with my patches to the 
> OpenBSD syslogd to get the time format I prefer.
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> But, please allow me to ask a question ...
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> If I were to submit a patch to syslogd to allow the ISO format in local 
> time,  is that something that might be looked at?
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> Maybe, instead of in rc.conf.local ...
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> syslogd_flags=-Z
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> there might be an option
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> syslogd_flags=-L
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> Submitting patches is not a new thing for me (please see ntpctl).
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> But I do have to say, I am getting old and my c coding skills are waning...
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> But, I'll try to rally for this ...
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fwiw,
the current patch file I use is:

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--- syslogd.c.orig	Thu Jun 26 15:10:13 2025
+++ syslogd.c	Sat May 30 17:41:22 2026
@@ -1788,13 +1788,13 @@
  		struct tm *tm;
  		size_t l;

-		tm = gmtime(&now.tv_sec);
+		tm = localtime(&now.tv_sec);
  		l = strftime(timestamp, 33, "%FT%T", tm);
  		/*
  		 * Use only millisecond precision as some time has
  		 * passed since syslog(3) was called.
  		 */
-		snprintf(timestamp + l, 33 - l, ".%03ldZ", now.tv_usec / 1000);
+		snprintf(timestamp + l, 33 - l, ".%03ld", now.tv_usec / 1000);
  	} else
  		strlcpy(timestamp, ctime(&now.tv_sec) + 4, 16);
  }


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But I do understand that changes would need to be made beyond that patch 
file.  Options parsing, man descriptions, etc ....

I'll try ...