Re: Using syslog on pg for Windows

On Jan 4, 11:22 pm, jlar(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com ("Jeff Larsen") wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2008 8:33 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:17:52PM -0800, Goboxe wrote:
> > > Hi,
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> > > What are required to be configured in order to send logs to
> > > remote syslog server for pg running on Windows platform?
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> > > Inhttp://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org/tutorial.html, it says
> > > "You can set syslog to send the log to another server through the
> > > network with @ip.ad.dr.ess."
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> > > So try to update postgresql.conf
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> > > syslog_facility = 'x.x.x.x'
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> > > or
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> > > syslog_facility = '(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)x(dot)x(dot)x(dot)x'
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> > > But it still does not work.
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> > > Any tips?
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> > PostgreSQL on Win32 doesn't support syslog logging. You'll have to log to a
> > file and have an outside tool transfer that file to where youn eed it.
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> PostgreSQL does, however, support logging to Windows Event Log. From
> there you could implement software to ship Event Log to remote syslog.
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> Jeff
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Hi,

Thanks for noth pointers. I'll try it.

Goboxe.