Hi, as stated in LOG4NET-310 EventLogAppender runs into a SecurityException on Vista and newer if the event source doesn't exist.
ActivateOptions tries to see whether the source exists and create it if it doesn't. Starting with Vista even looking for a source that doesn't exist will throw a SecurityException as you'd need to look into the Security log as well and this requires Local Administrator privs. I don't really know what we are supposed to do here. All we can do is (1) document that you need to create your event sources outside of your application (usually during deployment) and (2) deal with the SecurityException in a more graceful way (log something and disable the appender, likely). Any other ideas? Stefan
