Conflicting timestamps in rsyncd.log

[Bill Landry]

Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Matt McCutchen wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 17:21 -0800, Bill Landry wrote:
> 
>>> I just setup my first rsyncd server and all is working well as far as
>>> file syncing goes.  However, I am a bit baffled by the fact that some of
>>> the log entries in the rsyncd.log file are entered in local time and
>>> other are entered in GMT.
>> This happens because the chroot done by the rsync daemon prevents glibc
>> from reading /etc/localtime to determine the current timezone.  I'm not
>> sure what is the "right" fix for this issue, but you can work around it
>> using the new chroot+chdir mode in rsync >= 3.0.0.  E.g., configuration:
>>
>> [some-module]
>> 	use chroot = true
>> 	path = /path/to/chroot/./some-module
>>
>> Then copy /etc/localtime to /path/to/chroot/etc/localtime and put the
>> module data in /path/to/chroot/some-module.  See also:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4402
> 
> A nice workaround, but not a solution.
> The daemon should get and export the timezone info before forking into 
> the chroot environment.

Thanks for the reply, I could copy localtime into the chroot.  I just
tried using a logging facility instead of a "log file" by changing the
logging in my rsyncd.conf to:

log format = %h %a %m (%u) %f
syslog facility = local3

and adding the following to my rsyslog.conf file:

local3.info    /var/log/rsyncd.log

However, now the rsync logging is going into both /var/log/rsyncd.log
and /var/log/messages.  If it's not one thing it's another.  Is there a
way to only log rsync messages to /var/log/rsyncd.log and not to
/var/log/messages?

Thanks for any feedback!

Bill