X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_RW,TW_WX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?UTF-8?B?UmVuw6kgQmVyYmVy?= Subject: Re: Enable logging remote ssh contacts Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:41:44 -0500 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <31478200.post@talk.nabble.com> <20110426132128.GA6293@jethro.local.lan> <31478748.post@talk.nabble.com> <4DB6E0EA.8070901@cygwin.com> <31481290.post@talk.nabble.com> <31484865.post@talk.nabble.com> <31485107.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 In-Reply-To: <31485107.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 4/27/2011 2:31 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote: [snip] > I guess it works, but until yet I have not been able to open the file > messages, as access is denied, even after stopping the syslog service. On Windows XP? It should be readable by everybody. What permissions and ownership do you see for the log? For instance, I see: $ ll /var/log total 996K drwxrwxrwx+ 1 rberber None 0 Apr 1 19:10 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1 rberber None 0 Aug 14 2010 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 SYSTEM root 627K Apr 27 10:38 autossh.log -rw-r--r--+ 1 rberber None 0 Dec 3 17:29 messages autossh is running as a service, I don't have syslog-ng running so messages is empty, both files are world readable. --=20 Ren=C3=A9 Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple