Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Administrator's Guide Volume 2

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6.5.1 Checking log files

Both Internet Gateway and HTTP Gateway output log files for different types of information. You can use this information to analyze errors.

The log files are in text format and are output to installation-directory\log. However, in Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000, the files are output to the following directories in the drive on which the operating system is installed:

At startup, five log files of each type are created with file names indicating the type of log and an appended numeric digit in the range 01-05. The extension is .txt. When all five files become full, they are overwritten beginning with file number 01. You can identify the most recent log information from the timestamp at the beginning of each line in the log file.

The output to the various types of logs are shown in the following tables.