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CentOS 5.x | SendMail

I'm cross-referencing logs with another application/server and would like to change the date format on the SendMail maillog.

Presently it's MMM DD HH:MM:SS

Is there any way to change that? Where is it defined?

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You have to switch to syslog-ng to be able to change the date format in the log files. I don't think syslogd, which is the default in CentOS 5.x, allows you to change the date format.

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Syslog is the one responsible for sendmail logs....thus to change the format you'd have to change the syslog program. Of course, that would change things for a number of other things doing logging.

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