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From: Cary Lewis <cary DOT lewis AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 08:12:33 -0400
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Subject: Re: createevent access denied
To: Brian DOT Inglis AT systematicsw DOT ab DOT ca, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Thanks for the tip - I already had logger installed, but without syslog-ng,
it doesn't seem to create windows events.

I also discovered that I had to run passwd -R in order to get createevent
to work from a cygwin mintty session.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 12:12 AM Brian Inglis <
Brian DOT Inglis AT systematicsw DOT ab DOT ca> wrote:

> On 2019-09-04 19:29, Cary Lewis wrote:
> > I am trying to write to the windows events sub system using createevent,
> > but I am getting access denied.
> >
> > Is there a cygwin utility that provides a way to create a windows event?
>
> Cygwin package util-linux contains logger which should create Windows
> events
> with Unix fields.
>
> Unless you have the Cygwin syslog or syslog-ng daemon installed and
> running as a
> service, in which case it will write to /dev/log socket, which will be
> logged to
> /var/log/messages, or whatever file or processing is configured.
>
> Search the mail archive for previous topics including syslog in the
> subject.
>
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> Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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