[asterisk-dev] option for timestamps in log messages

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

>>>> do like
>>>> syslog and be able to reduce repeated messages to one copy and the
>>>> number of repeats at flush time.
>>>
>>> I dispise this "feature" of syslog.
>>
>> syslog is _very_ useful if having a large setup and needing debug
>> info. local logging takes up far more cpu/io than syslog does in
>> these cases
>
> So: no timestamps on syslog messages? Any sense in that?
>
> Compare that to kernel messages that are availble both directly  
> (dmesg)
> and through syslog. While there is an option to give timestamps to
> kernel messages, it is not very popular.

Since some might find a use for it, why not leave it in there? It's  
not like it's a bunch of code that's hard to handle. Leaving to the  
admin to configure it will probably be best imho

roy

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