Re: Logfile timestamp in 2.6

Nick Folino wrote:

Is there a way to change the timestamp format in the logs?

The log timestamps are printed in hex because it has the cheapest formatting cost.

Something a bit more readable than time from epoch in hex would be nice.

Use your favorite text processing language to postprocess the logs. perl or awk would be easy.

This awk script will do the job:

#### /^[0-9a-f]+.[0-9a-f]/{ split($1, stamp, ".") ts = "0x" stamp[1] "" us = "0x" stamp[2] "" tsn = strtonum( ts ) usn = strtonum( us ) ns = strftime( "%Y%m%d %T", tsn ) "." usn $1 = ns } { print } ####

awk -f stamp.awk < slapd.log | less