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Re: Syslog (was: <no subject>)
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: Tony Arnold <tony dot arnold at man dot ac dot uk>, Bjoern Kahl AG Resy <kahl at informatik dot uni-kl dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 05:47:18 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Syslog (was: <no subject>)
--- Tony Arnold <tony.arnold@man.ac.uk> wrote:
> I recall a question posted by Chris Faylor some time ago asking if the
> community wanted continued support for syslogd in Cygwin. As there was
> no
> demand for it at the time, the support was dropped.
>
> Having thought about it since, I can see some good reasons for having
> it:
>
> 1) Being able to grep a log file and otherwise process it with
> UNIX like tools would be a great advantage. I don't know of anyway to
> look
> at the NT event log using non Windoze tools (and if you could, the
> messages are not that friendly).
This would be a definite plus in that catagory!
>
> 2) The ability to send logging to a central syslog server as you
> can on UNIX systems would also be useful. We currently centralise our
> logging and we than analyse the log to detect attempted intrusion
> patterns. extending this to Windows boxes would be very useful.
>
I completely agree, plus it could also allow customization of which
messages are logged and which are sent to the console.
So you have my vote for this functionality :-).
Cheers,
Nicholas
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