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Re: viewing logs in the Event Viewer
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"Robert Citek" <rwcitek at alum dot calberkeley dot org>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 05:46:22 +0100
- Subject: Re: viewing logs in the Event Viewer
- References: <3.0.5.32.20030506233840.00f8e3d0@mail.earthlink.net>
Robert Citek wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to view Win2K log files with any of the Cygwin tools?
>
> Ideally, I would like to use Cygwin so that I can ssh into my Win2K
> machines and veiw the logs much like I can view the logs of my Linux
> machines with 'more /var/log/messages' and similar commands.
>
> Thus far, this:
> strings /cygdrive/c/winnt/system32/config/AppEvent.evt
> has not been successful.
There is a Win32::EventLog perl module. You might have to tweak it to work
on Cygwin, though - I don't think libwin32 was ever fully ported to Cygwin.
Max.
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