> Dunno what you're up to but I'm running syslog from inetutils just > fine. Cygwin tries to syslog on /dev/log if it's available (it's > usually created by syslog) and there's also a /dev/kmsg pipe which > would be utilized for kernel messages ... *if* Cygwin would have > anything like kernel messages. Nothing gets sent to /dev/kmsg so far. > Right now it's's only a proof of concept for using mailslots.
We just put in a new server that's used to centrally manage firewalls on our desktops. Unfortunately, while the vendor originally told us logging was done to a SQL database, it now turns out that logging from the clients goes to a syslog server. I've generally used syslog-ng instead of the standard syslog, and in this instance it's much more critical as we're going to be seeing over 50gigs of logs/month and need to archive and rotate logs fairly automatically. -ng does this very well. Following your advice, I installed the default syslog as a Windows service, and /dev/log is created, but only when syslog is running. How do I create it so it's always available? Thanks, -T -- 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/
