[asterisk-dev] option for timestamps in log messages

[Steve Edwards]

Don't care -- I only use syslog.

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to know "when" something happened. 
They can always use "cut" or "awk" if they want do discard the timestamp 
to find out "how many."

I also hate syslog's "repeated x times" nonsense. It makes grepping 
through xxx mb log files less useful, reliable and accurate.

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Russell Bryant wrote:

> While working on improving some code in logger.c, I noticed that the
> option to provide timestamps in log messages is totally bogus.  The
> timestamp will be included in the log message regardless of the value of
> the option.
>
> I started working on fixing the option so that it worked properly, but
> I'm not sure it's worth it.  I can't imagine that anyone would actually
> complain about having timestamps in their logs and want to be able to
> turn them off.
>
> I would like to propose removing the option all together and make it the
> default, and only behavior.
>
> -- 
> Russell Bryant
> Software Developer
> Digium, Inc.
>
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Thanks in advance,
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