Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Why complicate openlog()? Let the Cygwin applications that use openlog() > do this (e.g., in a postinstall script). We could even add a utility > package in "Base", similar to "editrights", that contains scripts for > adding and removing this setting (something like 'regtool add > "KEY/$1/VAL"; regtool set "KEY/$1/VAL" "value"') that the postinstall and > preremove scripts can invoke... That way this would also be cleaned up > if, say, "openssh" were uninstalled.
That is certainly a reasonable alternative. Though it's slightly less automatic since it requires every package maintainer of any program that writes to the event log to do something in a postinstall (and presumably preremove) script. But if it were turnkey to the point of being able to just run "add-event-source sshd" in a postinstall, then it wouldn't be too much hassle, and the user could even do it manually if necessary. Brian -- 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/
