James, There's a local file implementation of the EventLog which also works on linux, but it is not enabled by default.
See the MONO_EVENTLOG_TYPE environment variable in the mono manpage for more info. Currently there's no support for syslog, but this would not be all that hard to add. The best solution would be to move the EventLogImpl base class (which is currently internal) to one of the Mono assemblies, and implement a provider model. That way, the syslog-based eventlog provider could be shipped as part of Mono.Posix. Gert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Kelly Jr Sent: zondag 20 april 2008 9:40 To: [email protected] Subject: [Mono-list] Issues related to EventLog class Hello, I've recently needed to port some .NET software from Windows to Linux and so far everything has been smooth sailing, though with some lack of sleep, and its almost finished but I've come to a dead stop as the EventLog class is used to retrieve information from the system, administration and security logs in Windows but unfortunately the EventLog class has no functionality in *nix systems and so I'm left in bit of a rut here and I'm overwhelmed as, at the moment, my only options is to parse /var/log/syslog myself and this distresses me because it does not seem very portable, the format of the log could very easily be very different across the large assortment of Linux distros, or the log could be in a totally different format, e.g. MetaLog or Syslog-Ng. So basically said, with EventLog off the table, I need a reliable way to parse the /var/log/syslog, maybe some others, reliably that would work across different distros, or most anyway, I'd be willing to do some P/Invoking to an external library. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Jimmy. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
