[Box Backup] Logging

E.W. Peter Jalajas boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Thu, 18 May 2006 22:37:25 -0700 (PDT)


> > it'd be nice if I could see the results of those client-run 
> > compares in the store-server log somehow.
> 
> Only the client knows this. Perhaps we could add a protocol command
> that 
> the client sends to the server to request it to log a message? That's
> not 
> really about the logging infrastructure though. Can you add it to the
> feature requests please?

Done, thanks.  (I also deleted all the hidden wiki spam at the bottom;
interesting trick they use.)

> It is possible to use Cygwin cron to schedule tasks on a Windows
> machine, 
> but it's definitely not the right cup of tea for most Windows users.
> It's 
> also quite heavyweight. Windows has its own was to schedule tasks, I 
> believe, but unlike Cron it doesn't capture console output to mail to
> the 
> admin. That's why it might be useful for the command line tools to be
> able 
> to log to syslog.

In my ignorance, I was thinking that maybe it was as simple as carrying
along a very small handful of files, like maybe cygwin1.dll, cron.exe,
cygrunsrv.exe, or something like that.