From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29573 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2003 06:45:04 -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 29566 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2003 06:45:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (24.131.133.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2003 06:45:03 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 16D3E32A822; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 02:45:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:45:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Syslog daemon (yes, I read the archives) Message-ID: <20030912064502.GB13997@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00740.txt.bz2 On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:40:27PM +1000, David O'Shea wrote: >Hi all, > >>From reading the archives there seem to be some requests from people >to have the ability to use a syslog daemon instead of the Windows >Event Log or C:\CYGWIN_SYSLOG.TXT for syslog output. I would also >like that. > >I would like to try to implement this so that a registry flag controls >whether the current method is used or whether to try and talk to the >local syslog daemon. > >Is there any reason to not do this? If I don't hear back from here I >guess I'll try and get on the -developers mailing list and see what >they say. All of the developers read this mailing list. If you want to contribute something, you should look at the contributing link at the cygwin web site and you'll need to send in an assignment for any patch that you provide. I don't have any opinion one way or the other on this. I guess I'd have to see the implemenation. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/