Linux access to NT event logs

Linux access to NT event logs

[Tim Pennick]

Hi All,

Like most/all the members of this list, I'm more of a Unix/Linux person than
an NT person, and I'd like to stay that way.  However I've been asked to write
a PERL appplication to process an evennt log on an NT server.  I noticed that
there is a PERL package on CPAN called 'libwin32' which is designed to run
under 32-bit windows environments, but which includes the functionality for
event log processing that I'd like to be able to do on my Linux box.  As its
possible for one Windows box to process these logs on another Windows box, I
don't see why it shouldn't be possible to do the same using Linux. Has anyone
had any experience of this type or application, or could anyone recommend a
suitable newsgroup or website to post this question?

Many Thanks,

Tim Pennick

Re: Linux access to NT event logs

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Tim:

We had someone on the speakup list a few months ago that was doing this, 
or something similar. I'm sorry, I don't have his contact data, but I 
suspect you could get it by looking at the speakup list archive at 
http://www.linux-speakup.oprg. Search for a .mil address, and also for 
cygwin, as that was the basis of the discussion.

Essentially, he's a U.S. Defense Department employee (blind) who was 
administering several military NT servers using bash scripts within 
cygwin. My recollection is that he said that it was much faster and more 
efficient than doing the equivalent work directly with NT.
 On Thu, 10 Jan 
2002, Tim Pennick wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Like most/all the members of this list, I'm more of a Unix/Linux person than
> an NT person, and I'd like to stay that way.  However I've been asked to write
> a PERL appplication to process an evennt log on an NT server.  I noticed that
> there is a PERL package on CPAN called 'libwin32' which is designed to run
> under 32-bit windows environments, but which includes the functionality for
> event log processing that I'd like to be able to do on my Linux box.  As its
> possible for one Windows box to process these logs on another Windows box, I
> don't see why it shouldn't be possible to do the same using Linux. Has anyone
> had any experience of this type or application, or could anyone recommend a
> suitable newsgroup or website to post this question?
> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
> Tim Pennick
> 
> 
> 
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