René Berber-2 wrote: > > On 4/27/2011 1:49 PM, Fokke Nauta wrote: > >> I don't have any ll in the shell. Not recognized. > > Oops! My mistake, ll is an bash alias I defined, its just "ls -alhF > --color=tty" (actually is an alias that uses the alias ls is defined to, > but I included what both aliases do for simplicity). > >> So I can't see the >> I have syslog-ng running. Should I replace that by autossh? > > No, autossh is something else, I just kept it to show you how a Windows > service looks, like the sshd.log you have. > >> Strange enough the file /var/log/messages could not be opened by Windows. >> Tried with Textpad and Notepad. In both occasions it said: "access >> denied". >> So I installed cron and now copy /var/log/messages to a different >> location >> every 10 minutes. I can now read that file from Windows. However, copying >> that file creates an entry in the /var/log/messages file. >> So better quit syslog-ng and cron and use autossh instead? > > No, just run the following to see if everything is running as expected: > > cygrunsrv -LV > > Note the "Account" for both sshd and syslog-ng. That usually is what > gives problems. > > If both where installed using the Cygwin provided scripts, perhaps with > some help as provided in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/<package>.README, then > everything would work fine. My guess is that there is a difference, > which creates the problem, and it will show in the output of cygrunsrv. > If you send it to the list, we probably can spot the problem. > -- > René Berber >
Hi René, Thanks. Basically, everything works fine except that it is impossible to open /var/log/messages in Windows. But, as I already answerd to Cyrille, that is perhaps a matter if using chmod to that file? Running cygrunsrv -LV generates: Service : cron Display name : Cron daemon Current State : Running Controls Accepted : Stop Command : /usr/sbin/cron -n stdin path : /dev/null stdout path : /var/log/cron.log stderr path : /var/log/cron.log Environment : CYGWIN="ntsec" Process Type : Own Process Startup : Automatic Account : .\Fokke Nauta Service : sshd Display name : CYGWIN sshd Current State : Running Controls Accepted : Stop Command : /usr/sbin/sshd -D stdin path : /dev/null stdout path : /var/log/sshd.log stderr path : /var/log/sshd.log Environment : CYGWIN="ntsec tty" Process Type : Own Process Startup : Automatic Dependencies : tcpip Account : LocalSystem Service : syslog-ng Display name : CYGWIN syslog-ng Current State : Running Controls Accepted : Stop Command : /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F stdin path : /dev/null stdout path : /var/log/syslog-ng.log stderr path : /var/log/syslog-ng.log Process Type : Own Process Startup : Automatic Account : LocalSystem With regards, Fokke -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Enable-logging-remote-ssh-contacts-tp31478200p31496002.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple