Re: NotLoggingdetails when user changes system time with date command

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Chinnakka K Batakurki wrote:

> When I changed the Linux system time by using date -s <time> command, 
> the info is not logged to /var/log/wtmp

wtmp is a file for recording user login/logout activity.

> whereas when I change the Hardware clock with hwclock command, it is 
> logged to : /etc/adjtime

Certain uses of hwclock will write /etc/adjtime to record clock drift 
statistics.

> Could you please let me know is there any setting needs to be done to 
> get the logs related to system date/time

I'm not sure what sort of logging you'd like to see. Small, 
single-purpose commands like coreutils don't generally write logs; 
perhaps the logger(1) command would suit your purposes?


Cheers,
Phil