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Re: Reg. Turning off Event Log Messaging
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: piyush_lwl at yahoo dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:05:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Reg. Turning off Event Log Messaging
- References: <OF9A0660FF.9DDE63BE-ON88256F3B.00647B4D@sybase.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, piyush_lwl wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using the Cygwin_Nt 5.0. I have sceheduled some tasks by using the
> crontab feature of the cygwin. Whenever these tasks are executed it
> loggs an informative message in the application event log, this is
> causing a considerable growth in the application event log size. could
> anyone pls. help me so that i can turn off the logging of the cron
> events in the application event log of Windows NT.
>
> Regards
> Piyush Lowalekar
Try installing cron using
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -1 /var/log/cron.log -2 /var/log/cron.log
This should redirect all the messages you see in the Windows Event Log to
/var/log/cron.log...
HTH,
Igor
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