When you run your program as a normal user can you write to the EventLog without using log4net?
----- Original Message ---- From: rodchar <rodc...@hotmail.com> To: log4net-dev@logging.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:45:22 PM Subject: log4net event logging appender http://www.nabble.com/file/p22088962/log4tester.PNG log4tester.PNG hi all, i have the simplest console app to test the eventlog appender. http://www25.brinkster.com/rodchar/log4net.htm image of windiff Initially, if i run the app as a user the event log won't work. However, if i run the app as an admin, it successfully writes to the event log. Then when i run the app again as a user it will log to the event log (unlike before). can someone please explain this? Console Messages: ************* Run As User ***************************** log4net:ERROR DOMConfigurator: Could not create Appender [EventLogAppender] of t ype [log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender]. Reported error follows. System.Security.SecurityException: The source was not found, but some or all eve nt logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security. at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.FindSourceRegistration(String source, String m achineName, Boolean readOnly) at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists(String source, String machineName ) at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists(String source) at log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender.ActivateOptions() at log4net.Repository.Hierarchy.DOMHierarchyConfigurator.ParseAppender(XmlEle ment appenderElement) The Zone of the assembly that failed was: MyComputer log4net:ERROR DOMConfigurator: Appender named [EventLogAppender] not found. ************* Run As Admin ***************************** log4net: EventLogAppender: Creating event source Source [log4netTester.exe] in l og Application] log4net: EventLogAppender: Source [log4netTester.exe] is registered to log [Appl ication] log4net: DOMConfigurator: Created Appender [EventLogAppender] log4net: DOMConfigurator: Adding appender named [EventLogAppender] to logger [ro ot]. thanks, rodchar -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/log4net-event-logging-appender-tp22088962p22088962.html Sent from the Log4net - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
