Subj : Re: Syslog and Windows
To   : dragon
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Feb 19 2024 22:05:33

  Re: Re: Syslog and Windows
  By: dragon to Digital Man on Mon Feb 19 2024 08:03 pm

 > On 2/16/2024 21:12, Digital Man wrote:
 > >    Re: Syslog and Windows
 > >    By: dragon to Digital Man on Fri Feb 16 2024 07:47 pm
 >
 > >   > I'm running Synchronet on Windows.  I have most of my other services
 > > on
 > >   > dozens of machines sending log data to a central Windows syslog
 > > server.
 > >   > I would LOVE to get Synchronet to do that as well.  Possible?
 >
 > > If you run Synchronet on Windows a NT services, then all the log output
 > > goes to the Synchronet Event log:
 > > https://wiki.synchro.net/monitor:ntsvcs
 >
 > > I don't have experience with it, but apparently using something like
 > > EventReporter, you can forward all Windows event log messages to a syslog
 > > server.
 >
 > Quite a lot of functionality is lost by running Synchronet as a service.

What functionality is that? With the addition of MQTT support in v3.20, I plan to make running Synchronet as an NT service to as natural (and featureful) as it is to run it as a daemon on *nix.

 >   I would much prefer to have Synchronet send log entries directly to a
 > remote syslog server.  If this seems too difficult to implement, I won't
 > keep pushing the idea.

Nobody's ever made the request before. <shrug>
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