On Jul 29 20:24, Herb Martin wrote: > Reading my syslog.conf indicated that the messages are > going to /var/log/messages.
Yes. Do they? They do in my case... > But what is that 19 Meg wtmp? (I have plenty of disk space > so haven't just renamed or deleted it yet.) wtmp is a record of all login/logout activity. It's not related to syslogd. > 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). Generally, no. Windows services have no idea what a SIGHUP is. For Unix service daemons it's common, but you can't rely on it unless it's documented in the man page. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/