access to event log of windows

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Systemtechnik wrote:

> Hello,
>
> >> is there a way to read/write from/to the event log of windows ?
> > syslog and vsyslog are implemented in Cygwin.  On NT they use the
> > event log system.
> You're right.
> But i think with syslog i can only write to the log.
> What i also need is to read from it :-)
> In other words: i'd like to scan NT eventlog for errors,
> programatically.

I have doubts there's a portable way to scan syslog programmatically.  If
you simply want to access the NT event log, look at the libwin32-perl
package (there may be other ways, too).
	Igor
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