Timestamp in logs

[Andreas Ericsson]

Upayavira wrote:
> My nagios.log file shows the timestamp in integer form, such as:
> [1083063994] SERVICE NOTIFICATION........
> 
> How can I switch it to show a more human readable timestamp?
> 
Hack the source.

The reason for using unix timestamps (in seconds since the unix epoch) 
is because it's easy to parse and calculate differences between them. If 
humans were supposed to read the log-files the timings would have been 
different. Feed the logs to a script of you want to read them manually.

If it's any help, the timestamp is in seconds since the unix epoch 
(January 1, 1970) and the 'UNIX Billenium' (when the digits passed 
1000000000) occured on September 9, 2001.

> Other than this, I seem to have a fully working Nagios, with alerts by 
> SMS, monitoring of load on multiple servers, etc, etc, which I am 
> delighted with.
> 
> Regards, Upayavira

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Mvh
Andreas Ericsson
OP5 AB
+46 (0)733 709032
andreas.ericsson at op5.se


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