Paul/James: Paul Vriens wrote: >James Hawkins wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Paul Vriens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just sent a few patches that fix the problem with the timeout on my >>> machines. >>> >>> Do you think it's still worthwhile to disable logging by using >>> MsiEnableLogA? When I now look in my temp folder I have a few hundred MSI >>> log files. We could either disable logging or create 1 file ourselves and >>> append everything to there (removing it afterwards maybe). >>> >> >> Logging to one file takes just as long as any other type of logging. >> No logging should be happening. No I don't think it's worth using >> MsiEnableLog to disable loggin. Logging is not enabled by default, >> and to enable it you have to change some registry entries, which I >> doubt anyone is doing. >> >The reason for the 1 file was not to speed up things but to limit the number >of >logfiles in the temp directory (and maybe the ability to remove this file as >we >know the one we created ourselves). > >On all of my boxes (95/98/NT/W2K/ 2 times XP/W2K3/Vista) I end up with 200 or >so >logfiles in the temp directory after running the install tests. On none of >these >boxes did I do anything to tinker with the msi logging settings. > >It would be nice if other could tell if they have a huge number of these >logfiles in their temp directory after running the tests. >
+1 to one log file. I hate having to look through piles of log files to find errors. Yes, I know that I could grep them, but that is an added step that should not be needed. -- James McKenzie