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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:39:49 +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: <01ab01c0a651$4f608020$275c100a@actfs.co.uk>; from Malcolm.Boekhoff@actfs.co.uk on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:22:51PM -0000

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:22:51PM -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.
> 
> What can I type on the bash command line to get something into the event "application" log?
> 
> Something like this maybe?
> 
>     bash> syslogd

Don't start syslogd.

>     bash> ssmtp   # Or some command that supposedly writes to syslog?

If ssmtp doesn't log by itself, you're out of luck. I suppose that
ssmtp at least has a switch or option in it's conf file.

Corinna

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