[Openswan Users] Question about plutostderrlog

[Ruben Laban]

On Monday 11 July 2011 at 22:02 (CET), Nick Howitt wrote:
> In order to de-clutter my /var/log/secure I tried to remove the pluto
> messages from this file by setting plutostderrlog=/var/log/pluto. While
> this works in that the log is redirected to /var/log/pluto there is no
> date or timestamp in the log making it rather less useful. There was a
> post to the list in 2004 but no useful answer. Is there any way of
> getting a date and timestamp into this log?

I'd say the more sane solution would be to reconfigure your syslog daemon to 
put openswan related messages in a seperate file. "Newer" syslog daemons like 
syslog-ng are quite flexible in doing stuff like this.

Regards,
Ruben Laban