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Date:	Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:59:13 -0700
From:	Lester Ingber <ingber AT ingber DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: cygserver errors
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I do have all Cygwin packages on my PC.  I assume that I must specifically
"activate" syslogd?

But why?  If the same info is in now the Windows event log, what else
would be learned?

Thanks.

Lester

:Lester Ingber wrote:
:
:> In /etc/cygserver.conf I set
:> kern.log.syslog yes
:> and restarted the cygserver service.
:> I then started my startxwin.sh.
:> 
:> I still have an empty /var/log/cygserver.log file, with the same
:> errors in Event Viewer -> Application.
:
:You need to install syslogd (part of inetutils) or syslog-ng, otherwise the messages will go to Windows event log.
:-- 
:René Berber



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