You can specify where you want the log files to go by using the Performance Optimizer. But I don't think you can limit the size of the logs. I think MS recommends to only use Maximum for troubleshooting due to the overhead. You might want to turn it off or lower the logging to a lower level and then just check the log file size every so often.
Diane -----Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ever growing log files Thanks everyone for your assistance on this. As usual, you were right on the money. The SMTP protocol logging was set to "Maximum". One final question though if anyone knows. Can these logs be configured to save somewhere other than C:? Or can you set them to not grow beyond a certain size? I don't see any configuration options in the GUI. Thanks. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Diane Beckham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ever growing log files Tim, I'm not a Exchange expert, but I don't think those are the transaction log files that are flushed when a backup is done (at least they aren't on my Exchange Server) Those are the MDBData logs and usually start like edbxxxx.log and they are always 5,120KB. The log files you are looking at, I think, is caused by someone who has set up message tracking or diagnostic logging. I think you can just delete them, but you better ask Martin, Don, Kevin, or William to be sure. Look around in Exchange Admin to see if you have any type of diagnostics being logged. HTH, Diane -----Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:39 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: ever growing log files I tried sending this yesterday, but right after we got hit by Goner so I don't know if it ever got through. > We have one Exchange 5.5 server, SP4, running on NT 4 SP6a. Just recently after the removal of one of our servers from the site, the C: drive on our remaining exchange server has started running low on disk space. Looking out there in the exchsrvr\imcdata\log folder, there are about 17 different files named L0000000, L0000001, etc. The biggest one is almost 2GB in size and some of the others are over 100MB. > > Couple of questions. Should these logs be this big? I thought when you do a full backup it was supposed to flush the logs. We use Backup Exec 7.3 and are doing full backups every day. Circular logging is enabled. We have checked these logs for the past 4 days or so and they are growing larger each day. > > Second, can I just run the optimizer and move these logs to a bigger partition? I suggested doing that, but one of my coworkers says not to touch them. > > Thanks for your help. > > Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
