Subject: Re: syslogd?
From: Duke Normandin <[email-masked]>
To: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
Cc: Cygwin List <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 19:19:01 -0600

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:29:19AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[email-masked]]
> > 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

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