[Mono-list] Nothing happens with mono-service and EventLog.WriteEntry

Gert Driesen gert.driesen at telenet.be
Mon Feb 12 16:06:22 EST 2007



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-
> bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Michael Schurter
> Sent: maandag 12 februari 2007 21:21
> To: Gert Driesen
> Cc: 'mono-list'
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Nothing happens with mono-service and
> EventLog.WriteEntry
> 
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 20:47 +0100, Gert Driesen wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > Did you set the MONO_EVENTLOG_TYPE environment variable ?
> >
> > Checkout the mono manpage for more info.
> 
> Thanks for the tip!  Sorry I didn't read the man page.  I checked out
> MonoDoc, but it doesn't have any documentation for the EventLog yet.
> 
> Can I help update MonoDoc's EventLog coverage?  There are edit links,
> but I'm not sure what they do.
> 
> Also while I admire the EventLog's adherence to Windows Event Log, its
> very clumsy to use in Linux.  I think I'll just end up writing to my
> own
> log file manually.

What part is clumsy about it ? I started working on an MWF gui for the
eventlog which basically is a light-weight version of the windows
EventViewer.

You can find this in the winforms-tools svn module.

Gert



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