Thanks for the tip - I already had logger installed, but without syslog-ng, it doesn't seem to create windows events.
I also discovered that I had to run passwd -R in order to get createevent to work from a cygwin mintty session. On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 12:12 AM Brian Inglis < brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > On 2019-09-04 19:29, Cary Lewis wrote: > > I am trying to write to the windows events sub system using createevent, > > but I am getting access denied. > > > > Is there a cygwin utility that provides a way to create a windows event? > > Cygwin package util-linux contains logger which should create Windows > events > with Unix fields. > > Unless you have the Cygwin syslog or syslog-ng daemon installed and > running as a > service, in which case it will write to /dev/log socket, which will be > logged to > /var/log/messages, or whatever file or processing is configured. > > Search the mail archive for previous topics including syslog in the > subject. > > -- > Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada > > This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains > too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
