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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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