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That's because you doesn't have syslog running or maybe cygwin doesn't emulate local sockets, not sure, I have no experience with cygwin. But AFAIK Net::Daemon is required only for DBD::Proxy, so if you don't need it, you can safely ignore failed tests and force installation of Net::Daemon.

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Re^2: Trouble installing DBI::Bundle
by SkipHuffman (Monk) on Dec 29, 2009 at 19:44 UTC

    Thanks. I am learning more about Cygwin than I thought there was to know. I am going to upgrade Cygwin first and see if I can enable syslogd

    Skip

    PS: Dear World, why the heck isn't syslog DEFAULT in cygwin. Seems like a pretty darn core function to me.

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      I'm actually not sure that the problem is in Cygwin, it maybe problem with Net::Daemon itself, or with some module it uses, particularly try to update Sys::Syslog. Also check if Cygwin's syslog.exe works, it should log messages into windows event log. Or, as I already told you, just put off with it, most likely you don't need it. Just install DBI instead of Bundle::DBI.

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        Happy to report (on July 5, 2012) that your suggestion fixes the problem for me (on perl 5.10 on Cygwin 1.7.15 on Windows 7): installing Sys::Syslog causes the Net::Daemon to stop complaining about the missing /dev/log and it, too, installs successfully. It might help to make Net::Daemon's installer suggest installation of Sys::Syslog.
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        Thanks, I will give that a try

        Skip
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