Change epoch time to date in nagios.log

[reincarne]

Hi,
Is there a way to change the the way Nagios writes the date in nagios.log file instead of epoch to a human date?

[1493793917] Event broker module 'NERD' deinitialized successfully.
[1493793917] ndomod: Shutdown complete.
[1493793917] Event broker module '/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o' deinitialized successfully.

[lmiltchev]

Try using perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e' to convert the time to a "human readable" format.

Example:

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tail -50 /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log | perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e'

[reincarne]

this does the trick, is there a way to force NAgios save it inside the logs to avoid from using such long command everytime?
I also don't want to create alias for this command.

[avandemore]

No there is not a way which will not break things.

[reincarne]

ok thanks

[tmcdonald]

Did you have any further (related) questions or are we okay to close this thread?