I thought Event Logs overwrite the oldest events when the log is full.
I have created a Custom Event Log for a Windows Service app. When this
Custom Event Log gets full, a call to eventLog.Writeline crashes the service.
When I stop and restart the service, I get a Windows Internal Error and the
service fails to start (because I suspect it never gets past the OnStart
which writes to the event log).
If I empty the Custom Event Log, the service starts fine!
I see no options when creating the Custom Event Log to specify the size, or
that old entries should be overwritten.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Dave
Dave Boal - 08 Dec 2004 00:15 GMT
I just figured out that you can set the properties of a Custom Event Log from
the Windows Event Log viewer. This resolves my problem, however, I would
like to programatically set the properties of the Custom Event Logs when it
is created...in code.
Thanks, Dave
> I thought Event Logs overwrite the oldest events when the log is full.
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> Thanks, Dave