Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?)

2011-10-27 Thread Lars Augensen
Engineer -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: 26. oktober 2011 19:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?) Because of the MS Windows Server 2008 behavior of clearing

Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?)

2011-10-27 Thread John Cooper
-Original Message- From: Lars Augensen [mailto:lars.augen...@confirmit.com] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 3:33 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?) @John: I was considering going the same route

[WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?)

2011-10-26 Thread Lars Augensen
Hi everyone, I'm trying to get our setup to log to a specific location that is not %temp% - per default. Given that the MsiLogFileLocation property is read-only and cannot be used for giving another location, and telling the users to use msiexec instead of setup.exe is not doable - do I

Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?)

2011-10-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Burn logs to %TEMP%, that's not configurable. There is a bug open that we need to use another path instead of %TEMP% because reboots on Windows server clear the folder. However, there are no plans to make the full path of the log file configurable. The MsiLogFileLocation sets variables in Burn to

Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?)

2011-10-26 Thread Lars Augensen
Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?) Burn logs to %TEMP%, that's not configurable. There is a bug open that we need to use another path instead of %TEMP% because reboots on Windows server clear the folder. However, there are no plans

Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?)

2011-10-26 Thread John Cooper
] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 9:44 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?) Well, that bug is exactly why I need that functionality, so.. what is the alternate path you are thinking of using? - Lars

Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?)

2011-10-26 Thread Adam Kadzban
Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 26. oktober 2011 16:38 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?) Burn logs to %TEMP%, that's not configurable. There is a bug open that we need to use another path

Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?)

2011-10-26 Thread John Cooper
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hard-coding a log file location (with Burn?) I've used IExpress in the past to wrap an MSI in an EXE - this lets you specify a log file location. I've been meaning to take a look at Burn to see if there is a better