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# 15  
Old 01-15-2013
The PID is appended to the process name and is identical for all four entries shown above. You can freely log with logger, but your free style msg will be prepended with a (n internally generated?) time stamp and some system info.
On the other hand, were two syslog processes competing for input, I'd presume the behaviour would be what we see - each instance would get every other msg...
# 16  
Old 01-15-2013
Below is the process for starting test1 and test2
Quote:
ps -ef |grep ldap-mail
ldap 1798 1 14 16:42 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /home/ldap/bin/ldap-mail.pl
Not sure whether it will make any difference with Date:Manip perl module?

Version on the non-working system is
Quote:
perl -MDate::Manip -e 'print $Date::Manip::VERSION'
6.05
Version on the working system is
Quote:
perl -MDate::Manip -e 'print $Date::Manip::VERSION'
5.48
Below is the content from ldap-mail.pl that writes to the logfile

Quote:
# Library to talk to Ldap
use Net::LDAP;


&OpenLog;

&WriteLog("Ldap-mail ldap-mail.pl ($0);\n",
" $VersionInfo\n",
" being run at ",
&UnixDate(&ParseDate("today"),"%a %e-%h-%y %H:%M:%S"),
" by $MailAddress\n"
);
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Quote:
Originally Posted by prash358
Below is the process for starting test1 and test2


Not sure whether it will make any difference with Date:Manip perl module?

Version on the non-working system is


Version on the working system is


Below is the content from ldap-mail.pl that writes to the logfile
Bottom line i want the log to be displayed as
Quote:
Jan 14 18:30:06
date/time format
# 17  
Old 01-15-2013
You should post the part that writes to syslog, the above code seems to be writing to another log ...
# 18  
Old 01-15-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
You should post the part that writes to syslog, the above code seems to be writing to another log ...
Actually the log is being written to the below location (i.e)
Quote:
linux@test1:/home/ldap/logs/ldap-mail$ tail -f ldap-mail.log
2013-01-15T17:00:55.083548+00:00 test1 ldap-mail[15719]: Resending the message to a total of 80000
2013-01-15T17:00:55.083567+00:00 test1 ldap-mail[15719]: Resending the message for other to a total of 38 Recipients
and the same log will be written into /var/log/messages where i see the alternate lines are kind of misleading (i.e) one line will show the format i would like to and the next following line will show the format as above log.

Quote:
linux@test1:/home/ldap/logs/ldap-mail$ tail -f /var/log/messages
2013-01-15T17:03:45.817730+00:00 test1 ldap-mail[18018]: Message delivered
Jan 15 17:03:45 test1 ldap-mail[18018]: submitted
2013-01-15T17:03:45.818092+00:00 test1 ldap-mail[18018]: Resending the message to a total of 0 Moderators
Jan 15 17:03:45 test1 ldap-mail[18018]: Resending the message to a total of 0 Moderators
# 19  
Old 01-15-2013
So I suppose that somewhere in the Perl code you're logging to syslog twice with different date format masks.
# 20  
Old 01-15-2013
Pls grep for log or syslog in the output of ps.
# 21  
Old 01-15-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
So I suppose that somewhere in the Perl code you're logging to syslog twice with different date format masks.
How can we correct the date format in the below log

Quote:
linux@test1:/home/ldap/logs/ldap-mail$ tail -f ldap-mail.log
2013-01-15T17:00:55.083548+00:00 test1 ldap-mail[15719]: Resending the message to a total of 80000
2013-01-15T17:00:55.083567+00:00 test1 ldap-mail[15719]: Resending the message for other to a total of 38 Recipients
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