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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:36:15 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Does "syslogd" work?
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In-Reply-To: <016901c0a647$02e56210$275c100a@actfs.co.uk>; from Malcolm.Boekhoff@actfs.co.uk on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:09:08PM -0000

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:09:08PM -0000, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote:
> I thought I could use the syslogd daemon to get some idea of what ssmtp is
> doing, but when I type "syslogd&" at the bash prompt, the command starts and
> exits immediately!

Nope. It forks and the parent exits. The child is running in the
background as it's usual for a daemon.

Unfortunately, syslogd isn't that useful.
the syslog always goes to the NT eventlog on NT/W2K and always
into C:\\CYGWIN_SYSLOG.TXT on 9x/ME.

However, patches to Cygwin are really welcome. I would like to
see my syslog output fed to syslogd as well when it's running.

Corinna

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