Re: access to event log of windows

2004-07-13 Thread Systemtechnik
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

RE: access to event log of windows

2004-07-13 Thread Morche Matthias
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).

Re: access to event log of windows

2004-07-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 12 08:51, Oliver Geisen wrote: Hello, is there a way to read/write from/to the event log of windows ? I think it would be a great thing to have event-logs in a UNIX-style underneath /var/log/... Mayby one can make a interface-file where events are mapped into log-files, like Unix

RE: access to event log of windows

2004-07-12 Thread Mike Kenny - BCX - Infrastructure Services
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:05 AM To: Cygwin Newsgroup Subject: Re: access to event log of windows On Jul 12 08:51, Oliver Geisen wrote: Hello, is there a way to read/write from/to the event log of windows ? I think it would be a great thing to have

Re: access to event log of windows

2004-07-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 12 11:24, Mike Kenny - BCX - Infrastructure Services wrote: Corinna, thanks for this useful information. Is there a comparable command line utility to inspect the event log(s)? I know of psloglist and dumpel, but I really want to stick with cygwin tools. Any possibility? Not yet, no.

RE: access to event log of windows

2004-07-12 Thread Mike Kenny - BCX - Infrastructure Services
thanks for this useful information. Is there a comparable command line utility to inspect the event log(s)? I know of psloglist and dumpel, but I really want to stick with cygwin tools. Any possibility? Not yet, no. You could write one ;-) Corinna I could, but it might end up