Auth.log

[Scott Gerhardt]

I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 and I noticed that /var/log/auth.log does not 
include year (YYYY) in the log entries.  My daily cron jobs recently 
sent notice that there were some failed login attempts on July 3 to an 
account that was removed many months ago.  This raised concern, so I 
did a thorough check and determined that the failed login attempt 
occurred July 03 of 2003, _not_ 2004.

Shouldn't auth.log include the full YYYY-MM-DD date to avoid confusion 
in case auth.log doesn't rotate between years?  This should apply to 
all logs, especially security related logs...



Thanks,

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Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo.
Gerhardt Information Technologies