Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 19:19:01 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Robert Collins Cc: Cygwin List Subject: Re: syslogd? Message-ID: <20010603191900.B146701@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Robert Collins , Cygwin List References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Robert Collins" on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:29:19AM X-Envelope-Receiver: On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:29:19AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:gerrit.haase@t-online.de] > > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 9:17 AM > > To: Charles S. Wilson > > Subject: Re: syslogd? > > > > > > Charles S. Wilson schrieb am 2001-06-03, 15:03: > > > > > "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > > > > > > > Hartmann, Josef schrieb am 2001-06-03, 15:44: > > > > > > > > > I tried to run syslogd (latest cygwin on Winnt4.0SP6a) > > however I don't get > > > > > any log messages to /var/log/messages? Could you please > > give me some hints/ > > > > > links how to setup that up (mainly for use for openssh). > > > > > > > > syslogd is useless, every message goes to winnt's eventlog. > > > > > > Well, pardon me, Gerrit, but what the *!@#$^ do you think > > IS the system > > > log on an NT system? 'sys' + 'log' + 'd' == system log daemon. == > > > WinNT event log. on a WinNT system. > > > > Aha, so is /usr/sbin/syslogd running all the time and i never > > knew about? > > No! The Windows NT Event log is a _different_ piece of software from > syslogd, that is the EQUIVALENT to syslogd. > > It's got nothing to do with cygwin, other than the fact that cygwin logs > syslog message to it. > > Rob Does this apply to win95 as well? If not where does syslogd messages get logged to in win95 -- if at all? -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple