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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:29:23 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Syslog (was: <no subject>)
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:24:12AM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Bjoern Kahl AG Resy wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Thomas Mellman wrote:
>>
>> > I can't find any reference to syslogd for CYGWIN, although there
>> > is a syslog(1).
>> > Isn't this daemon necessary to write a /var/log/messages file?
>>
>>  AFAIK all syslog-messages are send to the NT-syslog-service. I
>>  dont know how it is named in the english version of NT, but in
>>  the german NT it is named "Ereignisanzeige", so probably "event-viewer"
>>  or some thing like that in the english versions of NT.
>
>I recall a question posted by Chris Faylor some time ago asking if the
>community wanted continued support for syslogd in Cygwin. As there was no
>demand for it at the time, the support was dropped.

Huh?  We never, AFAIK, supported syslogd.  I don't recall ever asking if the
community wanted continued support.  I might have asked if anyone had a solution
for Windows 9x, though.

cgf

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