* Re: does syslog works only for SYSTEM account on w2k?
@ 2003-09-29 12:24 Scott Bolte
2003-09-29 12:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Scott Bolte @ 2003-09-29 12:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
>
> > 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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* does syslog works only for SYSTEM account on w2k?
@ 2003-09-28 22:15 Scott Bolte
2003-09-29 10:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Scott Bolte @ 2003-09-28 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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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