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From: "Herman Poon" <poonh AT mcmaster DOT ca>
Subject: Re: cron - Application Event Log
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:26:19 -0500
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Hi,

Thank you for the reply -- seems to work perfectly! The messages are
being logged to /var/log/messages (the default as defined in
/etc/syslog-ng.conf) and no longer to the Windows Application Event
log.

I noticed that in the Cygwin setup, syslogd has been replaced with
syslog-ng (new generation?) "Syslog replacement daemon." So the config
script is /usr/bin/syslog-ng-config, if anyone else is wanting to solve
the same problem.

I also managed to find this thread
(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg02075.html) after posting my
original question. It describes, in detail, how to create a custom
build of cron by modifying the source. A caveat, of course, is that
upgrading will require a custom rebuild each time as mentioned at the
top of the thread.

Thanks again.

Herman


On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:59:53 -0500 (EST)
 Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Herman Poon wrote:
> 
> > I would like to suppress logging of tasks by cron in the Windows
> > Application Event log. I want to schedule a task that runs
> frequently
> > but do not want the Event log to quickly grow.
> >
> > I did search the Cygwin mailing list archive and found this:
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg01333.html
> >
> > I found that the -1 and -2 switches create String values "StdOut"
> and
> > "StdErr" for the Parameters key of the cron service in the
> registry. It
> > would appear that any output should be logged to /var/log/cron.log.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this does not seem to work and every time a task
> runs in
> > cron, an entry is added to the Application Event log. The cron.log
> file
> > itself only shows lines similar to the following:
> > [2252] cron started
> >
> > The cron.log file doesn't contain anything else, just the pid and
> the
> > "started" line (when cron is stopped it doesn't log anything to
> > cron.log). I did stop/restart cron just to see if the settings
> would
> > take effect, but this didn't work either.
> >
> > I'm hoping that somebody has some suggestions for me. Thank you,
> 
> Cron uses the syslog interface to log its events.  By default, syslog
> messages go to the Event log, unless you run the syslogd daemon.  You
> should be able to install syslogd as a service using the
> /bin/syslogd-config script, and then control it using
> /etc/syslogd.conf.
> Enjoy,
> 	Igor
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