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Re: Does "syslogd" work?


> > I thought I could use the syslogd daemon to get some idea of what ssmtp is
> > doing, but when I type "syslogd&" at the bash prompt, the command starts and
> > exits immediately!
>
> Nope. It forks and the parent exits. The child is running in the
> background as it's usual for a daemon.
>
> Unfortunately, syslogd isn't that useful.
> the syslog always goes to the NT eventlog on NT/W2K and always
> into C:\\CYGWIN_SYSLOG.TXT on 9x/ME.
>
> However, patches to Cygwin are really welcome. I would like to
> see my syslog output fed to syslogd as well when it's running.

What can I type on the bash command line to get something into the event "application" log?

Something like this maybe?

    bash> syslogd
    bash> ssmtp   # Or some command that supposedly writes to syslog?





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