From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel log messages using wrong timezone
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:57:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020104145709.W12868@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C360D22.F6FFFAD6@nortelnetworks.com> <20020104135129.Q12868@lynx.no> <3C361AAC.EB9570B9@nortelnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C361AAC.EB9570B9@nortelnetworks.com>; from cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:12:12PM -0500
On Jan 04, 2002 16:12 -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > On Jan 04, 2002 15:14 -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> > > How does the kernel figure out how to timestamp the log output?
> > > The reason I'm asking is that we have a system that has /etc/localtime
> > > pointing to the Americas/Montreal timezone, but the log output from the
> > > kernel appears to be UTC.
> >
> > The kernel doesn't timestamp the logs, AFAIK. That is done by syslog when
> > it writes the logs to disk. If you check "dmesg" output - no timestamps.
>
> Hmm...good point. However, I should clarify that userspace logs are being
> corrected for timezone, but kernel logs are not. For userspace apps the
> timestamping is done in the glibc syslog() call, so now I need to figure out
> where it's done for the kernel.
Well, on my system I have "syslogd" and "klogd" running. Kernel logs are
extracted from the kernel ringbuffer by klogd and passed to syslog, so that
would be the place to look.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-04 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 20:14 kernel log messages using wrong timezone Chris Friesen
2002-01-04 20:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-04 21:12 ` Chris Friesen
2002-01-04 21:57 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-01-04 21:47 ` kernel log messages using wrong timezone -- solved Chris Friesen
2002-01-05 0:38 ` kernel log messages using wrong timezone Alan Cox
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