periodic security run output gives false positives after 1 year

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 17 February 2012 19:04, Roger Marquis <marquis at roble.com> wrote:
> Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
>>
>> In IETF this RFC is marked obsolete and replaced with RFC 5424 with
>> different timestamp format in ISO 8601 form. FreeBSD doesn't implement
>> 5424 yet. Almost complete implementation was done in NetBSD in that
>> regard in 2008. NetBSD before RFC 5424 changes has had pretty similar
>> syslogd source, so if one could analyze and port that changes to FreeBSD,
>> that would be pretty nice.
>
>
> Problem with that would be backwards compatibility, and it's not IMO
> worth breaking everyone's syslog parsing scripts to fix an issue that
> really isn't due to the date format as much as it is to log rotation.
>

That is not a showstopper. Nothing prevents to merge both formats in one
daemon and introduce a new syslogd option to choose the desired format.

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