Well of course NT is very out of date and unsupported now Midge. And I
wasn't referring to what it records, more what you could do with those
records when you have them. My favourite is a link in each entry which
leads you to a Microsoft page which effectively says "Buggered if I
know". Makes you feel less alone.
On 14/02/07, Adrian Midgley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> John Clegg wrote:
> > No, its rather more sophisticated than that Midge
>
> I dug out my notes from the NT admin course.
>
> They suggest that there are three log files, for system, application and
> security.
>
> The event viewer displays the records made in them.
>
>
> So they correspond to
> /var/log/messages and localmessages
> and
> /var/log/application_name.log
>
> Unix tends to have more, but the syslog daemon can be told to put a
> given application's messages into /var/log/messages and there are lots
> of options to allow telescoping or expanding of the whole process.
>
> And you can view them with whatever you care to use.
>
> I'd assume that the logging system in NT/XP is like many things, and
> derives from VMS, which was an ancestor of Unix as well.
>
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