No what I was referring to is that the logs can be manually deleted, by just stopping ColdFusion, and then when ColdFusion is started again all logs will be recreated.
You are not very clear on what your problem is, most of the logs can't be deleted from the Admin, because the logs are constantly locked. -- Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/113032480415921517411 On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > It was deleted via the cf admin interface, so I don't think undelete would > have helped. I do wish Adobe would update the log interface to make it > more > useful. It hasn't changed much at all since at least 4.5. The navigation > sucks and, apparently, there is no way to clear the logs so you don't have > to skip over many months of log entries to get where you want (which is > what > I was trying to do) CF does not recreate the exception log. I ended up > just reinstalling CF after backing up all the setting to a car file. That > fixed the problem. When you have a new instance of cf...the exception log > does not appear until you have an exception...so it would stand to reason > that it would recreate it if it wasn't there at any other point. I don't > see any logical reason why you would want to permanently delete the > exception log or why you would even want that option. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Scott [mailto:andr...@andyscott.id.au] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:28 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Log question > > > If the log is deleted ColdFusion should recreate the log, for example stop > ColdFusion go to the logs directory and delete them, then restart > ColdFusion > and the logs will be recreated. > > If you are wanting the log information from inside the file then you will > want an undelete tool to get the file back, but hurry because once the OS > reuses the space it will be lost forever. Which usually could be awhile > depending on the OS and disk size. > > -- > Regards, > Andrew Scott > WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > Google+: http://plus.google.com/113032480415921517411 > > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Eric Roberts < > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > > > > How do you restore a deleted log? In an attempt to clear the exception > > log, > > I ended up deleting it (they should label those buttons better).help! > > > > > > > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354206 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
