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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 12:40:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Bryan D. Thomas" <cinder_bdt AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: how to create a syslog-ng pidfile
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My syslog-ng on Cygwin does not have an associated
/var/run/syslog-ng.pid file.  I'd like to have this as
an aid to rotating the logs.

To generate a pidfile for syslog-ng, should I try the
-p switch to syslog-ng, (i.e. using the -a argument to
cygrunsrv) or the -x argument to cygrunsrv?  Or, will
neither of these work?

The /bin/syslog-ng-config script passes -F on to
syslog-ng already.  I'm thinking this is the reason a
pidfile is not naturally written, and that passing -p
will also have no effect?

I'm also wondering, since René correctly warned me
against editing the registry, how would I change the
way my existing service works?

Is the correct way to use cygrunsrv -R syslog-ng to
remove the service, then construct a new cygrunsrv -I
command with the appropriate arguments to install it?

I'm not seeing this guideline in the cygrunsrv.README
file explicitly, but I confess that I'm losing track
of all the things I've read recently.

Thanks for your attention and advice,

Bryan

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