[ANNOUNCEMENT] syslog-ng 3.2.5-3

2021-10-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * syslog-ng-3.2.5-3 This is just a rebuild updating from OpenSSL 1.0 to OpenSSL 1.1. Syslog-ng is a next generation system logger daemon which provides more capabilities and has a more flexible configuration then the

Re: Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

2016-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 13:35, Matthew Hatch wrote: > On 08/18/2016 03:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 17 16:09, Matthew Hatch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin > >> and is several

Re: Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

2016-08-18 Thread Matthew Hatch
On 08/18/2016 03:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 17 16:09, Matthew Hatch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin >> and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some >> feature

Re: Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

2016-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 17 16:09, Matthew Hatch wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin > and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some > features that are useful and pretty standard today in most syslog > daemons

Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

2016-08-17 Thread Matthew Hatch
Hi, I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some features that are useful and pretty standard today in most syslog daemons (ie: support for multi-line messages). Is there any chance of

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: syslog-ng-3.2.5-2

2015-02-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated syslog-ng to 3.2.5-2. Nothing new, just an update to link against the latest pcre DLLs. Have fun, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: syslog-ng-3.2.5-1

2012-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated syslog-ng to the upstream release 3.2.5. The upstream package needed a few minor patches, mainly a heartily autoreconf, as well as adding a missing cygwin-specific file. The package is now created using cygport. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now&

Re: syslog-ng service fails: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062

2012-03-27 Thread Ulrich Schmidt
hat am 27. März 2012 um 17:40 geschrieben: > On 3/27/2012 7:47 AM, Ulrich Schmidt wrote: > > $ cygrunsrv -S syslog-ng > > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: > > The service was not started. > > This might be a known problem with

Re: syslog-ng service fails: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062

2012-03-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/27/2012 12:16 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 27 11:40, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/27/2012 7:47 AM, Ulrich Schmidt wrote: $ cygrunsrv -S syslog-ng cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service was not started. This might be a known problem with

Re: syslog-ng service fails: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062

2012-03-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 27 11:40, Ken Brown wrote: > On 3/27/2012 7:47 AM, Ulrich Schmidt wrote: > >$ cygrunsrv -S syslog-ng > >cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: > >The service was not started. > > This might be a known problem with syslog-ng.

Re: syslog-ng service fails: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062

2012-03-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/27/2012 7:47 AM, Ulrich Schmidt wrote: $ cygrunsrv -S syslog-ng cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service was not started. This might be a known problem with syslog-ng. See the thread starting at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10

syslog-ng service fails: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062

2012-03-27 Thread Ulrich Schmidt
E-Mail lesen « 1 Von 22 » Environment: Windows 7/32 Cygwin 1.7.11-1 OpenSSH 5.9p1-1 syslog-ng 3.2.1-1 Dear Community, I’m just started with Cygwin and want to run openSSH. I’m getting slowly furher

Re: syslog-ng on Win7

2011-10-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 22 18:04, Ken Brown wrote: > I have syslog-ng running on two 64-bit Win7 systems, and the service > stops periodically and can't be restarted. The file > /var/log/syslog.ng log contains many lines saying > > Persistent configuration file is in invalid format

Re: syslog-ng on Win7

2011-10-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/22/2011 6:04 PM, Ken Brown wrote: I have syslog-ng running on two 64-bit Win7 systems, and the service stops periodically and can't be restarted. The file /var/log/syslog.ng log contains many lines saying Sorry, the file is /var/log/syslog-ng.log . Persistent configuration file

syslog-ng on Win7

2011-10-22 Thread Ken Brown
I have syslog-ng running on two 64-bit Win7 systems, and the service stops periodically and can't be restarted. The file /var/log/syslog.ng log contains many lines saying Persistent configuration file is in invalid format, ignoring; But apparently it doesn't ignore the error, and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: syslog-ng-3.2.1-1

2010-12-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated syslog-ng to the latest stable release 3.2.1. The upstream package needed a few minor patches. The package now comes with a postinstall script and an enhanced /bin/syslog-ng-config file in order to allow to change the syslog-ng file layout to be more aligned to the typical Linux

Re: Can't find any info on "eventvwr" or "syslog-ng" or "eventlog"

2010-01-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 18 22:55, Paul McFerrin wrote: > I discovered that cygwin has both packages for "eventlog" and "syslog-ng. > > I searched for cygwin documentation in "man", "info", and the > command itself. I have them both installed, (says setup.exe) but I

Re: Can't find any info on "eventvwr" or "syslog-ng" or "eventlog"

2010-01-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
Subject should read: Can't find any info on "eventlog" and "syslog-ng" Paul McFerrin wrote: I discovered that cygwin has both packages for "eventlog" and "syslog-ng. I searched

Can't find any info on "eventvwr" or "syslog-ng" or "eventlog"

2010-01-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
I discovered that cygwin has both packages for "eventlog" and "syslog-ng. I searched for cygwin documentation in "man", "info", and the command itself. I have them both installed, (says setup.exe) but I can only find the command itself for "syslog-ng

Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches

2009-09-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 28 16:46, Julio Costa wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 17:36, Julio Emanuel <> wrote: > > Hi Corinna (I think this is with you), > > > > I've been struggling with a small (but deadly) problem in the current > > syslog-ng package: >

Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches

2009-09-28 Thread Julio Costa
Hi, On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 17:36, Julio Emanuel <> wrote: > Hi Corinna (I think this is with you), > > I've been struggling with a small (but deadly) problem in the current > syslog-ng package: > ~ $ cygcheck -c syslog-ng > Cygwin Package Information > Package  

Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches

2009-03-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 14:39, Julio Emanuel wrote: > Answering to myself: after some source code analysis, I've arrived to > this tiny function in misc.c: > > gboolean > resolve_user(const char *user, uid_t *uid) > { > struct passwd *pw; > > *uid = 0; > if (*user) > return FALSE; > > pw = getpwna

Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches

2009-03-20 Thread Julio Emanuel
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 23:49, Julio Emanuel wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 18:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>> Now, for the part I didn't manage to solve yet: the syslog-ng service >>> also spits this warning (error?) when starting: "Error resolving use

Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches

2009-03-19 Thread Julio Emanuel
place in the first line written to >> the syslog-ng.conf :) > > The patch seems to be reverted, but I see. Ooops (again). But you got the point. I think you have that mind-reading capability... :) >  I'll update that and send > the patch upstream.  Thanks. > >>

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: syslog-ng-3.0.1-1

2009-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated syslog-ng for Cygwin 1.7 to the latest stable release 3.0.1. The 3.x series is a major new upstream release which contains a lot of improvements and bug fixes over the 2.x series. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwi

Re: syslog-ng 3.0.1 has been released => Cygwin status?

2009-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 14 11:06, Joost De Cock wrote: > Hello there, > > I noticed that syslog-ng 3.0.1 has been released > <https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2009-January/012370.html> on > Jan 12, 2009 and it looks very yummi to me. > > Now, the current syslog-ng ve

syslog-ng 3.0.1 has been released => Cygwin status?

2009-01-14 Thread Joost De Cock
Hello there, I noticed that syslog-ng 3.0.1 has been released <https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2009-January/012370.html> on Jan 12, 2009 and it looks very yummi to me. Now, the current syslog-ng version in Cygwin (2.0.7) was released on Jan 8, 2008 <https://lists.b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: syslog-ng-2.1.1-1 (and -2)

2008-10-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated syslog-ng on cygwin.com to the latest stable release 2.1.1. The Cygwin version is built from the vanilla sources. There's a -1 release for Cygwin 1.5.25 and, for 1.7 testing folks, a IPv6-enabled -2 release. Please read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/syslog-ng.README for postin

Re: Having trouble with syslog-ng using lots of CPU

2008-08-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:19:34AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 08/22/2008, Grav Yam wrote: >>In fact, I actually thought about emailing you or Corinna directly >>about this, but I didn't know if that was proper list etiquette. > >Sending email to the list is the recommended method of com

Re: Having trouble with syslog-ng using lots of CPU

2008-08-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/22/2008, Grav Yam wrote: In fact, I actually thought about emailing you or Corinna directly about this, but I didn't know if that was proper list etiquette. Sending email to the list is the recommended method of communication so you made the right call. -- Larry Hall

Re: Having trouble with syslog-ng using lots of CPU

2008-08-21 Thread Grav Yam
> You didn't look at this list archive, where I reported this problem long > ago, and to the syslog-ng list, where somebody reported it on Linux, > also long ago. By long ago I mean 3 or 4 versions back, but the problem > is still there. Woah - simmer down cowboy. To be fair R

Re: Having trouble with syslog-ng using lots of CPU

2008-08-21 Thread René Berber
Grav Yam wrote: > Even when nothing else is happening, and nothing is being logged, the > syslog-ng service is consistently using up 50% of my cpu under a > win2k host. > > I've looked though the mailing list archives and also googled around > a lot looking for a solution

Having trouble with syslog-ng using lots of CPU

2008-08-21 Thread Grav Yam
Hi - Even when nothing else is happening, and nothing is being logged, the syslog-ng service is consistently using up 50% of my cpu under a win2k host. I've looked though the mailing list archives and also googled around a lot looking for a solution, but no one else seems to really have

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: syslog-ng-2.0.7.1-1

2008-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated syslog-ng on cygwin.com to the latest stable release 2.0.7. The Cygwin version is called 2.0.7.1. It's taken from the current state of the syslog-ng upstream git repository, which contains Cygwin related patches beyond the official 2.0.7 release. Please read /usr/share/doc/C

Re: syslog-ng-config errors

2007-11-13 Thread Tony Benham
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > > On 13 November 2007 10:25, Tony Benham wrote: > > > I ran mkpasswd -d domain >> /etc/passwd to recreate passwd. But the problem > > remains. I cannot see the SYSTEM user in the file. Is there a switch for > > mkpasswd I need to use ? > > Try -l *as well*.

RE: syslog-ng-config errors

2007-11-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13 November 2007 10:25, Tony Benham wrote: > I ran mkpasswd -d domain >> /etc/passwd to recreate passwd. But the problem > remains. I cannot see the SYSTEM user in the file. Is there a switch for > mkpasswd I need to use ? Try -l *as well*. Then no need to append: mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/p

Re: syslog-ng-config errors

2007-11-13 Thread Tony Benham
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > On Nov 12 18:22, Tony Benham wrote: > > I've decided to run syslog-ng on my cygwin installation. I updated to latest > > version 2.0.5.1. When I run syslog-ng-config I get four errors > > setfacl : illegal acl entries

Re: syslog-ng-config errors

2007-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 12 18:22, Tony Benham wrote: > I've decided to run syslog-ng on my cygwin installation. I updated to latest > version 2.0.5.1. When I run syslog-ng-config I get four errors > setfacl : illegal acl entries > > Is this to be expected ? All four setfacl calls try to ad

syslog-ng-config errors

2007-11-12 Thread Tony Benham
I've decided to run syslog-ng on my cygwin installation. I updated to latest version 2.0.5.1. When I run syslog-ng-config I get four errors setfacl : illegal acl entries Is this to be expected ? I then modified syslog-ng.conf to change root group to Administrators as I don't have a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: syslog-ng-2.0.5-1

2007-10-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated syslog-ng on cygwin.com to the latest stable release 2.0.5. The 2.x series is a major new upstream release which contains a lot of improvements and bug fixes over the 1.6.x series. The binary is now much bigger because syslog-ng is by default linked statically to the support

Re: Patch for syslog-ng 1.6.12

2007-04-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 26 13:28, S. Schulz wrote: > I found a bug in syslog-ng-1.6.12. > If i use the MSGONLY macro the first char of the message is missing. > > Here is the patch: > -snip > 426,427c426,428 > < colon++; > < of

Patch for syslog-ng 1.6.12

2007-04-26 Thread S. Schulz
I found a bug in syslog-ng-1.6.12. If i use the MSGONLY macro the first char of the message is missing. Here is the patch: -snip 426,427c426,428 < colon++; < ofs = (colon - (char *) msg->msg->data); --- > ofs =

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: syslog-ng-1.6.12-1

2007-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated syslog-ng on cygwin.com to the latest stable release 1.6.12. This is just a minor update which contains scalability improvements and bug fixes. syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but with new functionality for the new generation. The original syslogd allows

Re: Problem with syslog-ng looping at start

2006-07-30 Thread René Berber
René Berber wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > [snip] >> I'm using syslog-ng all the time and I never had this problem. I'm >> wondering if you just have a dependency problem since that seems to >> happen on some systems but not on others. What happens if you a

Re: Problem with syslog-ng looping at start

2006-07-25 Thread René Berber
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] > I'm using syslog-ng all the time and I never had this problem. I'm > wondering if you just have a dependency problem since that seems to > happen on some systems but not on others. What happens if you add > a dependency to tcpip to the sy

Re: Problem with syslog-ng looping at start

2006-07-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
currently I'm using > 1.5.21 and this is under Windows XP-Pro sp2. > > Syslog-ng was installed as a service following the instructions in the README > and it works fine (even when it's looping), some info: > > $ cygrunsrv -Q syslog-ng > Service : syslo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: syslog-ng-1.6.11-1

2006-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated syslog-ng on cygwin.com to the latest stable release 1.6.11. This is just a minor update which contains scalability improvements and a change to the documentation. syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but with new functionality for the new generation. The

[SOLVED] Re: how to create a syslog-ng pidfile

2006-04-04 Thread Bryan D. Thomas
g the -x option to cygrunsrv, pointing it to the syslog-ng > pid file (that you specify via the -p option to syslog-ng), and then *not* > specifying the -F option to syslog-ng. I had not considered to combine the options! Yes, this worked: $ cygrunsrv -R syslog-ng $ cygrunsrv -I syslog-ng -d &quo

Re: how to create a syslog-ng pidfile

2006-04-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Bryan D. Thomas wrote: > > To generate a pidfile for syslog-ng, should I try the > > -p switch to syslog-ng, (i.e. using the -a argument to > > cygrunsrv) or the -x argument to cygrunsrv? > > I tried removing the service using cygrunsrv, then installin

Re: how to create a syslog-ng pidfile

2006-04-03 Thread Bryan D. Thomas
> To generate a pidfile for syslog-ng, should I try the > -p switch to syslog-ng, (i.e. using the -a argument to > cygrunsrv) or the -x argument to cygrunsrv? I tried removing the service using cygrunsrv, then installing the service with the changed option. But, when starting the serv

how to create a syslog-ng pidfile

2006-04-02 Thread Bryan D. Thomas
My syslog-ng on Cygwin does not have an associated /var/run/syslog-ng.pid file. I'd like to have this as an aid to rotating the logs. To generate a pidfile for syslog-ng, should I try the -p switch to syslog-ng, (i.e. using the -a argument to cygrunsrv) or the -x argument to cygrunsrv? Or,

SOLVED Re: cygrunsrv stderr and stdout only to a syslog-ng log?

2006-03-22 Thread Bryan D. Thomas
ndency to the sshd service, so that its only started when > syslog-ng is present, then you shouldn't see that problem anymore. Thanks again, René and Corinna. The Application Event Log messages stopped at one point during the day, and I was able to determine from the PID in the messages th

Re: cygrunsrv stderr and stdout only to a syslog-ng log?

2006-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 21 13:45, Bryan D. Thomas wrote: > I've found in cygrunsrv.README that the -1 and -2 > arguments may be used to specify that output of stdout > and stderr go to a log file instead of to the Windows > Event Log. > > I'm using cygrunsrv to run two services: sshd

Re: cygrunsrv stderr and stdout only to a syslog-ng log?

2006-03-21 Thread René Berber
Bryan D. Thomas wrote: [snip] > I only started thinking about that because the ssh-host-config script does > use cygrunsrv. So, instead of suggesting options, I'll just ask: is there a > way to stop sshd logging to the Application Event Log? If yes, how? It shouldn't be doing that. The problem

Re: cygrunsrv stderr and stdout only to a syslog-ng log?

2006-03-21 Thread Bryan D. Thomas
Thank you for your response, René. "René Berber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if sshd, for instance, finds that syslogd is running when it starts it > uses it, > if not it uses the Windows event log. > So all you need is to start syslogd, it works fine if all services are > started > at the sa

Re: cygrunsrv stderr and stdout only to a syslog-ng log?

2006-03-21 Thread René Berber
ch is to send any cygrunsrv output to /var/log/ which usually is empty since each service does its own logging. > I'm using cygrunsrv to run two services: sshd and > syslog-ng. I'm using syslog-ng to collect timestamped > log entries from sshd and do postprocessing with > filters.

cygrunsrv stderr and stdout only to a syslog-ng log?

2006-03-21 Thread Bryan D. Thomas
I've found in cygrunsrv.README that the -1 and -2 arguments may be used to specify that output of stdout and stderr go to a log file instead of to the Windows Event Log. I'm using cygrunsrv to run two services: sshd and syslog-ng. I'm using syslog-ng to collect timestamped log en

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: syslog-ng-1.6.9-1

2006-01-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have uploaded syslog-ng-1.6.9-1. syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but with new functionality for the new generation. The original syslogd allows messages only to be sorted based on priority/facility pairs; syslog-ng adds the possibility to filter based on message contents

Re: Syslog-ng

2005-06-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 30 16:47, Tony Karakashian wrote: > 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? You don't. /dev/log is supposed to be a AF_UNIX/AF_LOCAL socket create

Re: Syslog-ng

2005-06-30 Thread Tony Karakashian
y 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

Re: Syslog-ng

2005-06-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 30 15:19, Tony Karakashian wrote: > I've seen lots of people who got syslog-ng working on their cygwin > boxes. Latest version compiles just fine out of the box, but not sure > what I should put in for a source in the syslog-ng.conf? Default for > Linux is to use /proc/km

Syslog-ng

2005-06-30 Thread Tony Karakashian
I've seen lots of people who got syslog-ng working on their cygwin boxes. Latest version compiles just fine out of the box, but not sure what I should put in for a source in the syslog-ng.conf? Default for Linux is to use /proc/kmesg, but we don't have one under Cygwin. Are Cygwi

Syslog-ng-1.5.24 build instructions for cygwin

2003-01-12 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hi all: Thanks go to whoever fixed the bug in cygwin1.dll that caused syslog to fail as soon as a udp packet was sent to it. The bug was introduced sometime around 1.3.12, but is fixed now. So here is my recipe for building syslog-ng-1.5.24. Download syslog-ng-1.5.24 and libol-0.3.6. Patch the