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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:00:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Syslog (was: <no subject>)
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:47:18AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> I completely agree, plus it could also allow customization of which
> messages are logged and which are sent to the console.
> 
> So you have my vote for this functionality :-).

There's just the problem that we don't want Cygwin to rely on
a running syslogd.  syslogd isn't an integral part of the OS
(as on U*X systems) while the NT event log is.  Well, on NT.
On 9x we have the ugly syslog file workaround.

Corinna

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