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Dealing with Qmail’s TAI64N format

Today I had to do some work on my qmail, which I hate to work with. Basically, I needed to go through the logs and and verify some deliveries, etc. Well, the timestamps for qmail is using TAI64N (which I just learned about). You can use tai64nlocal to convert them to readable timestamps. Again, this is mostly for my reference in case I need to do this again.

Today I had to do some work on my qmail, which I hate to work with. Basically, I needed to go through the logs and and verify some deliveries, etc. Well, the timestamps for qmail is using TAI64N (which I just learned about). You can use tai64nlocal to convert them to readable timestamps. Again, this is mostly for my reference in case I need to do this again.


$ cat current
@40000000433225833b6e1a8c tcpserver: status: 5/30
@40000000433225833b6e2644 tcpserver: pid 26162 from 194.206.24.40
@40000000433225840c85ba04 tcpserver: ok 26162 a.mx.jms1.net:209.114.200.128:25 :194.206.24.40::1521
@40000000433225840c8f0cbc rblsmtpd: 194.206.24.40 pid 26162: 451 We do not accept mail from IP addresses without reverse DNS.
@40000000433225852a9ada4c tcpserver: status: 6/30
@40000000433225852a9ae604 tcpserver: pid 26163 from 193.123.2.227
@40000000433225852aa997bc tcpserver: ok 26163 a.mx.jms1.net:209.114.200.128:25 pixelwww.pixelpower.com:193.123.2.227::4232
@40000000433225852aa9a374 rblsmtpd: 193.123.2.227 pid 26163: 553 Sent mail to honeypot qmmycemglyiuq@delete.net on 2005-01-04
@400000004332258538eae27c tcpserver: end 26163 status 0
@400000004332258538eaea4c tcpserver: status: 5/30
$ cat current | tai64nlocal
2005-09-21 23:31:05.997071500 tcpserver: status: 5/30
2005-09-21 23:31:05.997074500 tcpserver: pid 26162 from 194.206.24.40
2005-09-21 23:31:06.210090500 tcpserver: ok 26162 a.mx.jms1.net:209.114.200.128:25 :194.206.24.40::1521
2005-09-21 23:31:06.210701500 rblsmtpd: 194.206.24.40 pid 26162: 451 We do not accept mail from IP addresses without reverse DNS.
2005-09-21 23:31:07.714791500 tcpserver: status: 6/30
2005-09-21 23:31:07.714794500 tcpserver: pid 26163 from 193.123.2.227
2005-09-21 23:31:07.715757500 tcpserver: ok 26163 a.mx.jms1.net:209.114.200.128:25 pixelwww.pixelpower.com:193.123.2.227::4232
2005-09-21 23:31:07.715760500 rblsmtpd: 193.123.2.227 pid 26163: 553 Sent mail to honeypot qmmycemglyiuq@delete.net on 2005-01-04
2005-09-21 23:31:07.954917500 tcpserver: end 26163 status 0
2005-09-21 23:31:07.954919500 tcpserver: status: 5/30

Here is a good site about qmail logs: http://qmail.jms1.net/logfiles.shtml