If you want to use syslog-ng, just run the /usr/bin/syslog-ng-config script. This script will create a default configuration file /etc/syslog-ng.conf and it will install syslog-ng as a service on NT systems on request. Please note that you cannot use syslogd from the inetutils package and syslog-ng together. Only one syslog daemon should run at a time. The syslog-ng-config script, as well as the latest version of the syslogd-config script are taking care of this when requested to install as service. The syslog-ng package has been created using the following command sequence from the top level source dir: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc/syslog-ng \ --libexecdir='${prefix}/lib' \ --localstatedir=/var/lib/syslog-ng \ --datadir='${prefix}/share/syslog-ng' make mkdir /tmp/syslog-ng make install-strip DESTDIR=/tmp/syslog-ng contrib/cygwin-packaging/cygwin-postinstall /tmp/syslog-ng tar -cjf syslog-ng-VERSION.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/syslog-ng etc usr