Another Method is using psloglist from SysInternals psutils package. It's not cygwin, but native win32.
... > 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). ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/