RE: [logs] Windows logrotation tool?

From: Steve Wray (steve.wrayat_private)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 13:47:11 PDT

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> From: Richardson, Stephan [mailto:stericat_private] 
> Noah,
> 
> For the Windows crowd, I have heard of little for rotating 
> all the different kinds of application specific logs.  
> Disclaimer, I know little about IIS web/ftp logs, but I 

FWIW IIS logs to text files.

> believe those are a different animal all together, but have 
> their own archival/logrotation capabilities.  Probably the 
> same for SQL, vendor specific stuff, etc.
> 
> For the Windows NT/2000/Xp Event logs, there are few of 
> options.  If you want to just roll over the logs, and don't 

What you *could* do is set up a *nix box (eg Linux)
as a syslog server and use something like ntsyslog
to send the NT/2K/XP logs to that and use the very
excellent (and more importantly; *existing*) 
*nix log rotation software.
:)



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