Paul/James: Paul Vriens wrote:
James Hawkins wrote:
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Paul Vriens paul.vriens.wine@gmail.com 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.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:18 AM, James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net wrote:
Paul/James: Paul Vriens wrote:
James Hawkins wrote:
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Paul Vriens paul.vriens.wine@gmail.com 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.
Why would you be grep'ing windows msi log files?
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James Mckenzie