Read Windows event log from via Cygwin /proc, /dev, ...?

[Martin Wege]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 11:38 PM Dan Shelton via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 03:10, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2024-07-23 18:07, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Does Cygwin have a script API to read the Windows event log, maybe via /proc
> > > or /dev?
> > Install package syslog-ng and set up Cygwin syslog, then set up other processes
> > that can, to write to syslog, and read that at /var/log/syslog.
>
> That was not my idea. I want to access the Windows event log via /proc or /sys
>

So you want to access the Windows "Ereignisanzeige" via /proc
filesystem? Actually a cool idea, because then we could use find&grep
to crawl the log for issues

Thanks,
Martin