periodic security run output gives false positives after 1 year

[Émilien Tlapale]

On 17/02/2012 15:56, Roger Marquis wrote:
>> It is similar to y2k problem and dates with YY format instead of YYYY 
>> - it was fine for many years...
>
> Is it?  If I recall Y2K had more to do with 2 digit year fields that 
> should
> have been 4 digit.
Whereas we have a 0 digits year field.
>
> I suspect it was not common practice to leave logs on the server for more
> than a year when Allman originally wrote syslog, and I have not seen an
> environment where logs are left in /var/log for over a year. 
But now, fascist-like laws in a lot of countries require us to store log 
files for a *long* time, for everything.