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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Robert Citek" <rwcitek AT alum DOT calberkeley DOT org>
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Subject: Re: viewing logs in the Event Viewer
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 05:46:22 +0100
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Robert Citek wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to view Win2K log files with any of the Cygwin tools?
>
> Ideally, I would like to use Cygwin so that I can ssh into my Win2K
> machines and veiw the logs much like I can view the logs of my Linux
> machines with 'more /var/log/messages' and similar commands.
>
> Thus far, this:
>   strings /cygdrive/c/winnt/system32/config/AppEvent.evt
> has not been successful.

There is a Win32::EventLog perl module. You might have to tweak it to work
on Cygwin, though - I don't think libwin32 was ever fully ported to Cygwin.


Max.


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