The syslog-ng 3.0 Administrator Guide

Document version: Thirteenth
Release date: September 23, 2010
Latest version available at the BalaBit Documentation Page

5.8.1. Command-line options

The syslog-ng Agent for Windows application has the following command-line options:

-e

Start the syslog-ng Agent in debug mode and send the messages to the Application eventlog container.

-d

Start the syslog-ng Agent in debug mode. The debug messages can be displayed using the dbgview application (available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx).

-i

Install the syslog-ng Agent service into the services list.

-r

Remove the syslog-ng Agent service from the services list.

-h

Display a help message about the command-line options.

-v

Display version information.

-t

Terminate the currently running syslog-ng Agent.

-c

Start the syslog-ng Agent using the specified XML configuration file.

To use these options, select Start > Run > cmd, navigate to the directory where the syslog-ng Agent is installed (e.g., cd C:\Windows\Program Files\BalaBit\syslog-ng Agent\), and execute the syslog-ng-agent.exe file with the required option.

Prev  Up  Next
5.8. Controlling the syslog-ng agent services  Home | Contents  5.9. Domain versus local settings

© 2007-2010 BalaBit IT Security
Please send your comments or documentation bugs to: documentation@balabit.com