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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:10:23 -0500
From: "Andrew Louie" <louiea@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: sshd timestamp logging
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On 2/26/07, Andrew Louie  wrote:
> On 2/26/07, DePriest, Jason R.  wrote:
> > Read the book!
> > First lines of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/syslog-ng.README
> >
> > If you want to use syslog-ng, just run the /usr/bin/syslog-ng-config
> > script.  This script will create a default configuration file
> > /etc/syslog-ng.conf and it will install syslog-ng as a service on NT
> > systems on request.
> >
>
> Okay I got it to work and am posting how i did it incase some poor
> soul like myself runs into the same problem.
>
> 1) use the setup.exe to install the syslog-ng package
>
> 2) run: $/usr/bin/syslog-ng-config
>     follow the prompts and install as a service
>
> 3) read the help on the syslog-ng.conf (man syslog-ng.conf)
>        define sources, destinations, filters(if necessary) and connect
> them with "log" statements
>
>
> 3) edit the /etc/syslog-ng.conf file and add the following source:
>       udp(ip("127.0.0.1") port(514));  # ip: localhost, port 514 is
> syslog, look in /etc/services for definitions of other ports
>
> 4) remember to hook up the source to a destination (like messages)
>
> 5) save, and start the syslog-ng service (cygrunsrv -S syslog-ng)
>
> troubleshooting:
>
> If the service fails to start make sure that SYSTEM or whoever you run
> the syslog-ng service as can read/write /var/log/syslog-ng.log.
>
> if the service starts but is not logging messages, restart the service
> with the -d arguement (debug) and run a tail -f /var/log/syslog-ng.log
> to see more helpful messages as they appear.
>
>
>
>
> --
> -Andrew Louie
>

Sorry about the e-mail address I forgot again!!
=/
-- 
-Andrew Louie

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