Linux Log Files: No Years

[loftrat]

Small extract from a Linux log file:

Jul  9 10:46:33 ##### sshd[655]: Received signal 15; terminating.
Jul 10 06:03:35 ##### sshd[656]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jul 10 06:03:35 ##### sshd[656]: Generating 768 bit RSA key.
Jul 10 06:03:35 ##### sshd[656]: RSA key generation complete.

The only problem is that there are no years listed, which is a pain when performing any sort of meaningful analysis of the logs.

Anybody got any ideas if there's a way to determine the year that a log file entry was made? Am I missing something silly/easy/obvious?

Thanks

[loftrat]

Anybody?



(Oh yeah, and what's with the banner at the top of the forum?)

[thorin]

Do any months occur in more than on block? i.e.: Are there two July entries seperated by 11 months of other entries?

[loftrat]

Not that I saw, none of the months were repeated (I'm guessing the logs came from a system that had been up and running for less than a year in total) - just trying to work out if there was a way from the log (or possibly) from somewhere else, to tell what year the logs had been written.

Thanks

[thorin]

Have you tried grep'ing/search'ing for 2008 or 2007? (or even 200, though depending on the log and messages that might match things you don't care about).

There might be a startup or shutdown message that includes full date/time.