Re: does syslog works only for SYSTEM account on w2k?

Re: does syslog works only for SYSTEM account on w2k?

[Scott Bolte]

> 
> > It seems like cygwin syslog on w2k, both the logger command the
> > syslog(3) routine, works only for the SYSTEM account. Is that true?
> 
> No.  Perhaps the users privileges don't allow that?  Members of the
> group "Users" (or the native analogon) have the appropriate permissions
> by default.

	I expect my test user has sufficient privileges.  It is
	in groups None, Administrators, Power Users, and User.

	I guess I'll try to learn more about the internals of w2k,
	more then I ever wanted to know, starting with ReportEventA().

	Unfortunately my configure of cygwin-1.5.5-1 died looking
	for an errant install-sh. In case my w2k environment is
	insufficient to build cygwin from scratch, could you add a
	check of return code from ReportEventA()? That might shed
	light on the problem.

		Thank you,

		   Scott




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Re: does syslog works only for SYSTEM account on w2k?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:03:42AM -0500, Scott Bolte wrote:
> 	 could you add a
> 	check of return code from ReportEventA()? That might shed
> 	light on the problem.

I've added a debug message.  Should be in the next developers snapshot.

Corinna

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Re: does syslog works only for SYSTEM account on w2k?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 03:16:54PM -0500, Scott Bolte wrote:
> It seems like cygwin syslog on w2k, both the logger command the
> syslog(3) routine, works only for the SYSTEM account. Is that true?

No.  Perhaps the users privileges don't allow that?  Members of the
group "Users" (or the native analogon) have the appropriate permissions
by default.

Corinna

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does syslog works only for SYSTEM account on w2k?

[Scott Bolte]

It seems like cygwin syslog on w2k, both the logger command the
syslog(3) routine, works only for the SYSTEM account. Is that true?

I have a test script that uses logger. When I call it manually no messages
appear in the event log. When I turn it into a service, where it is invoked
with SYSTEM privileges, the test messages make it into the event log.

FYI: my goal is to interleave status messages from concurrently running
perl scripts into a single log file where the entries are sorted by
generation time. The NT event log will be fine, I can extract my
messages via a separate perl script, but I don't want to turn these
scripts into services

Here's my configuration and test information:
	- Cygwin DLL version 1.5.5-1
	- OS w2k SP4
	- environment variable CYGWIN=ntsec
	- test script (sltest.bat):

		@echo off
		echo  ---
		echo  ---
		echo  ---
		echo Running the syslog logger test
		D:\cygwin\bin\date
		D:\cygwin\bin\logger testing
		D:\cygwin\bin\id
		D:\cygwin\bin\printenv
		D:\cygwin\bin\sleep 5
		rem vim: fileformat=dos

	- Command to create the service:
		cygrunsrv --install sltest -p ~/sltest.bat --type auto
	- Command to start the service:
		cygrunsrv --start sltest

Btw, google searches, and searches of the cygwin archives, failed to enlighten
me wrt any SYSTEM constraint.

	Scott

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