sysklogd: add timestamp option to ignore message timestamps
authorPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Thu, 9 Aug 2018 09:25:22 +0000 (11:25 +0200)
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:31:21 +0000 (17:31 +0200)
commit9d539f9fbd0dc4ea70ed8ba66e3c78150fa8a8b2
treef6686f8555301ee56d6fdd4d0c42ec5307178970
parent6791140123ebe7535f525f1a893a8536219122c4
sysklogd: add timestamp option to ignore message timestamps

Some syslog producers provide inconsistent timestamps, so provide an option
to ignore the message timestamps and always locally timestamp.  In order to
implement this, invert the valid-timestamp check, but only use the timestamp
if this option is not enabled.

This is in line with what what other syslogd implementations do:

From sysklogd syslogd.c:
 * Sun Nov  7 12:28:47 CET 2004: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
 *      Discard any timestamp information found in received syslog
 *      messages.  This will affect local messages sent from a
 *      different timezone.

rsyslog's imuxsock module similary has an (enabled by default)
IgnoreTimestamp option:

https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/modules/imuxsock.html

function                                             old     new   delta
packed_usage                                       32877   32912     +35
timestamp_and_log                                    363     376     +13
syslogd_main                                        1638    1641      +3
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Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
sysklogd/syslogd.c