RE: [ActiveDir] Cleanup of NETLOGON.LOGs

[Vinnie Cardona]

There is a GPO setting (never tried it) located here: \Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Net Logon\Maximum Log File Size   Description as explained by GPO setting: Specifies the maximum size in bytes of the log file netlogon.log in the directory %windir%\debug when logging is enabled.   By default, the maximum size of the log file is 20MB. If this policy is enabled, the maximum size of the log file is set to the specified size.  Once this size is reached the log file is saved to netlogon.bak and netlogon.log is truncated. A reasonable value based on available storage should be specified.   If this policy is disabled or not configured, the default behavior occurs as indicated above.   -vC   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:54 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cleanup of NETLOGON.LOGs   Turn logging down to 0. I would note that there is no notion of log generations, so your worst case here is 2* log size (where log size defaults to 10MB), so worst case it should only be 20MB, and deleting the archive is of course trivial.   More generally, we do reserve the right to write to this log & recreate it as needed as sometimes there are things we need to log so you can figure out what went wrong should something turn south. So even a log level of 0 does not guarantee no logging, it just means “not much logging” you could say.   ~Eric     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:19 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Cleanup of NETLOGON.LOGs   I just did a netlogon AD site cleanup process and want to delete all netlogon.logs from all DCs in our domain.  I noticed you can't delete it while the netlogon service is running.  Is there a better way to keep these netlogon file sizes down, or delete them regularly than to stop, delete, and restart services on each? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of Cameron and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~