Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:05:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: piyush_lwl@yahoo.com cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Reg. Turning off Event Log Messaging In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, piyush_lwl wrote: > Hi, > I am using the Cygwin_Nt 5.0. I have sceheduled some tasks by using the > crontab feature of the cygwin. Whenever these tasks are executed it > loggs an informative message in the application event log, this is > causing a considerable growth in the application event log size. could > anyone pls. help me so that i can turn off the logging of the cron > events in the application event log of Windows NT. > > Regards > Piyush Lowalekar Try installing cron using cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -1 /var/log/cron.log -2 /var/log/cron.log This should redirect all the messages you see in the Windows Event Log to /var/log/cron.log... HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/