From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24129 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2002 12:47:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24120 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2002 12:47:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web21008.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.227.62) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Jun 2002 12:47:19 -0000 Message-ID: <20020610124718.83609.qmail@web21008.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [130.127.121.212] by web21008.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 05:47:18 PDT Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:29:00 -0000 From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Syslog (was: ) To: Tony Arnold , Bjoern Kahl AG Resy Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00521.txt.bz2 --- Tony Arnold wrote: > I recall a question posted by Chris Faylor some time ago asking if the > community wanted continued support for syslogd in Cygwin. As there was > no > demand for it at the time, the support was dropped. > > Having thought about it since, I can see some good reasons for having > it: > > 1) Being able to grep a log file and otherwise process it with > UNIX like tools would be a great advantage. I don't know of anyway to > look > at the NT event log using non Windoze tools (and if you could, the > messages are not that friendly). This would be a definite plus in that catagory! > > 2) The ability to send logging to a central syslog server as you > can on UNIX systems would also be useful. We currently centralise our > logging and we than analyse the log to detect attempted intrusion > patterns. extending this to Windows boxes would be very useful. > I completely agree, plus it could also allow customization of which messages are logged and which are sent to the console. So you have my vote for this functionality :-). Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/