Re: Clearing IIS logs

["Shoten" <shoten () starpower net>]

The problem with this method is that IIS will not continue the existing log
file, but rather create a new one.


> IIS keeps the log file open, so I don't know of a way to do it without
> stopping IIS. The easiest way to acccomplish this is to create an AT job
> that stops IIS, deletes the logs and then restarts IIS. The account that
the
> AT service runs as probably has permissions to do this. To cause even more
> confusion for the admin, copy an old log and give it the same name as
> todays' log. Some log types don't show the date in the individual entries,
> but the admin may not notice either way.



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