René Berber-2 wrote: > > On 4/26/2011 2:02 PM, Fokke Nauta wrote: > > [snip] >> I edited the proper sshd_config file. Perhaps I didn't do that well >> enough, >> but after restarting the Cygwin ssh service no login attempt was logged >> after I logged in. > > Where are you looking for the log? > > If you are not running syslog-ng (or any other syslog) then the log is > Windows' event log. > > But if you did install/configure/run syslog-ng then its at > /var/log/messages (or a different log if you configured that). > > Don't confuse /var/log/sshd.log for the real log, that one is just for > output sent by cygrunsrv (the program that serves as helper to make sshd > a Windows service). > -- > René Berber >
Thanks. I was looking in /var/log/sshd.log indeed. So - in order to see a real log file I need to install/configure/run syslog-ng. How do I do that? Fokke -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Enable-logging-remote-ssh-contacts-tp31478200p31484865.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
