Dave Korn wrote: > On 28 August 2007 15:49, Will Parsons wrote: > >> I had a working syslogd on my computer at work, but now the computer has >> been replaced (the IT department copied over the contents from the old >> computer) > > Please god they didn't use the 'doze "Files and Settings transfer wizard". > That totally messed up all my symlinks when I used it once. > >> Configuration finished. Have fun! >> 151$ ls -l /etc/syslog.conf >> -rwx------+ 1 wbp Domain Users 472 May 15 10:42 /etc/syslog.conf >> 152$ chmod +r /etc/syslog.conf >> 153$ chmod -x /etc/syslog.conf >> 154$ ls -l /etc/syslog.conf >> -rw-r--r--+ 1 wbp Domain Users 472 May 15 10:42 /etc/syslog.conf >> 155$ cygrunsrv -L >> syslogd >> 156$ cygrunsrv -S syslogd >> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: >> The service has not been started. > > You need to take a look in the windows event log and see if you can find a > more detailed error message there.
I did that, but it doesn't help me: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( syslogd ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: syslogd: PID 2720: `syslogd' service stopped, exit status: 0. >> I've chmod'ed the files in /var/log so as to be readable and writable by >> all. > > Yeh, can't see anything immediately obviously wrong yet. Maybe you could > rerun the config, but this time answer 'yes' when it asks if it should > overwrite the .conf file - save a copy of your current one, by all means, but > it's a worthwhile experiment to try and narrow down the source of the trouble. I renamed syslog.conf and re-ran syslogd-config to re-generate it, but with the same effect, so I don't think I'm any further along. - Will -- 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/
