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SysLogD for the naive?
- From: "Herb Martin" <HerbM at learnquick dot com>
- To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:24:44 -0500
- Subject: SysLogD for the naive?
I added SysLogD as a service to my Cygwin server
(because I wanted to support SpamD logging to it
for SpamAssassin.)
CYGWIN syslogd is started and running as a service.
(And SpamD stopped emitting a warning about unable to
find syslogd when it starts.)
/var/log/sylogd.log was created at that time and remains at
size: 0 bytes (since the yesterday July 28) while
/var/log/wtmp is at 19Meg and updated frequently (inspecting
it reveals a lot of NUL bytes and is somewhat difficult to
read.)
Reading my syslog.conf indicated that the messages are
going to /var/log/messages.
But what is that 19 Meg wtmp? (I have plenty of disk space
so haven't just renamed or deleted it yet.)
I took almost all of the defaults -- glanced at the syslog.conf
and didn't see anything that I understood how or why to change
so I *believe* that it is still at the defaults. (See below)
Please tell me what I have overlooked or done incorrectly.
Latest Cygwin.
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
My syslog.conf
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
#*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none /var/log/messages
# The authpriv file has restricted access.
#authpriv.* /var/log/secure
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
#mail.* /var/log/maillog
#For a start, use this simplifed approach.
*.* /var/log/messages
Also, can you (generally) HUP a service and expect it
to re-read a configuration file? (If it would do so
on a kill -s HUP signal that is).
--
Herb Martin
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