I am completely new to the UNIX environment. I see that on most Linux implementations syslog logs can be found at /var/log/syslog. On Cygwin I am invoking a syslog() call in my C source file using syslog.h. The file compiles and executes correctly, but I cannot find any indication of where the log is stored. My /var/log directory doesn't even contain a /syslog folder.
Even from the terminal, the logger user command seems to execute just fine but again I can't find the log.
When I've searched on Google for this issue, I get vague unrelated links to the syslog-ng packages. I am not sure if this package is at all related to the issue at hand. I've downloaded it from the Cygwin installer, but it did not help.
For the UNIX specific questions that I've read on StackOverflow, many answers direct users to etc/syslog.conf, but that does not exist either.
Use /usr/bin/syslog-ng-config to configure the service
The configuration will go in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf