rsyslog: readable time stamps

Jun 5, 2011

As of the recent change in time stamps in rsyslog, you have the following time stamp in your logs:
2011-06-05T00:21:46.693033+05:08

Now isn’t that hard and complicated?
Seriously, who wants a high precision time stamp? Here’s how you quickly change it to a much more readable and simpler one. Add the following code to the beginning of /etc/rsyslog.conf

# Traditional Output Method
$template TraditionalFormat,"%timegenerated% %HOSTNAME% %syslogtag% %msg%\n"
$ActionFileDefaultTemplate TraditionalFormat

Restart rsyslog. This is what you will get:
Jun 5 00:22:58