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roland90
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 20:01 Post subject: Syslogd time is showing UTC in logs

I'm using build r44849 (11/20/20) and my local time is correct on my router's main page using NTP

Code:

Time Zone: Europe/Berlin
Server IP: time-d.nist.gov

But in /var/log/messages time is constantly in UTC timezone.
I tried to execute these commands followed #5913 but nothing changed.

Quote:

killall syslogd
syslogd -t -L -s 819200 -O /mnt/sda1/logs/messages.txt

How can I use my local time (UTC+1) in the system log?
Merry Xmas to all!

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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 20:27 Post subject:
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roland90
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 21:43 Post subject:

egc wrote:

Leave server ip blank

Thanks for the reply.
I deleted the server IP saved and restarted the router but unfortunately the time is still in UTC zone within the log file. :/

Alozaros
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 23:42 Post subject:

roland90 wrote:

egc wrote:

Leave server ip blank

Thanks for the reply.
I deleted the server IP saved and restarted the router but unfortunately the time is still in UTC zone within the log file. :/

yep NTP time zones are messy, sometimes...
mine is fine im on 45109 last build...

if you need to specify server use their IP address instead of resolving names

162.159.200.123 this is cloudflare ntp
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roland90
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 0:22 Post subject:

Alozaros wrote:

roland90 wrote:

egc wrote:

Leave server ip blank

Thanks for the reply.
I deleted the server IP saved and restarted the router but unfortunately the time is still in UTC zone within the log file. :/

Thanks the reply.
I tried that.

Interesting because some types of log are shown with correct time and some are not.

Correct:
syslog.info
daemon.info
cron.info
daemon.debug
daemon.err
user.info

Not correct:
kern.warn
kern.alert
kern.info
kern.debug

kern.warn is the most important to me
because this prints iptables drop/accept lines.

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roland90
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 0:50 Post subject:
Thanks guys. I modified also the start-up script with the -t option and now everything working fine. Merry Xmas.

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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 1:22 Post subject:
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roland90
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 1:34 Post subject:

kernel-panic69 wrote:

What start-up script?

I had this in start-up:

Quote:

killall syslogd
syslogd -L -s 819200 -O /mnt/sda1/logs/messages.txt

and after restart I executed these 2 lines but syslogd with extra -t option and this is not enough.
I modified also the start-up and after reboot it worked perfectly.
No need to change these settings:

Quote:

Time Zone: Europe/Berlin
Server IP: time-d.nist.gov

Correct start-up script:

Quote:

killall syslogd
syslogd -L -t -s 819200 -O /mnt/sda1/logs/messages.txt

Alozaros
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 8:10 Post subject:

roland90 wrote:

kernel-panic69 wrote:

What start-up script?

I had this in start-up:

Quote:

killall syslogd
syslogd -L -s 819200 -O /mnt/sda1/logs/messages.txt

Quote:

Time Zone: Europe/Berlin
Server IP: time-d.nist.gov

Correct start-up script:

Quote:

killall syslogd
syslogd -L -t -s 819200 -O /mnt/sda1/logs/messages.txt

y do you need that script, at the first place??
I dont use it and all is fine...remove it and check again..
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roland90
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 11:18 Post subject:

Alozaros wrote:

roland90 wrote:

kernel-panic69 wrote:

What start-up script?

I had this in start-up:

Quote:

killall syslogd
syslogd -L -s 819200 -O /mnt/sda1/logs/messages.txt

Quote:

Time Zone: Europe/Berlin
Server IP: time-d.nist.gov

Correct start-up script:

Quote:

killall syslogd
syslogd -L -t -s 819200 -O /mnt/sda1/logs/messages.txt

y do you need that script, at the first place??
I dont use it and all is fine...remove it and check again..

Needed because I redirected the output to the pendrive.

Alozaros
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 13:22 Post subject:

sorry, this is very lime, i didnt even look at it...and had a believe its about correct time script..
just paid more attention and realised, it for storing the log messages...how embarrassing for me...

yep back in the days, there was the same issue reported ..
I've no idea if it was sorted, i don't use logging mess on pendrive, nor on syslog server unless i need for debugging...
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Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/SmartDNS/DoH,AD-Block,Firewall,Forced DNS,x3VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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egc
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 13:37 Post subject:

Yes that should be taken care of.

What happens if you do not restart the syslog but just use the built in syslog/klog, does it show the correct time in /var/log/messages?

If so it might be needed to export the TZ with :
export TZ=UTC1
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