Rotating IW logs on a Win2k box

Does anyone here automatically rotate their IW logs on a win2k box without having to bring down Teamsite? If you do, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Derek

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sajiddc

hmm.. Interesting question. iwserver maintains a lock on the iwevents.log and iwtrace.log file hence rotating may not be possible without stopping teamsite. What you can do is write a batch script that stops the teamsite service, rotates the log file and restarts the service. To stop the iwserver service you will need to issue a command like the following:

net stop iwserver
net start iwserver

Hope that helps.

Migrateduser

I would agree with Sajiddc, the fact that the server has the logs
open for writting is the issue.

I think that there might be a way to do this (apache has the ability to use "piped logs" which can be rotated as the process that writes to them does not keep the log open on a constant basis). The problem being is that this is not something that could be done without some changes to iwserver (might be a good feature request however).

sajiddc

It does make a good feature request. I wonder why this issue has not surfaced any earlier.