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by martin_devlin 1 view

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I can't find anything in Technet or here about configuring IIS to delete old logfiles! As it is it seems to let them accumulate ad infinitum. There must be a way to get IIS to delete them automatically (no, I don't want to schedule a batch job or anything to delete them after a given period I want IIS to do it for me). Many thanks.

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by gutridgesj

if your goal is to delete files, then whatever needs to be done, has to be done.

i have also checked and iis 4 (not sure about iis5) will not automatically delete the logs. you can configure to write less number of files by configuring iis to make a new file once a week or month or at a certain size.

but if the goal is to delete files, i would make a batch file and configure it to run when you want.

if the goal is to complain about MS IIS and try and force it to do something it cannot, tell MS to make a change to their software so that this can be done. good luck.

such is the life of a system admin. sometimes we have to do things we don't like because some company did not put a feature that we want.

i personally set the iis logs to make a new file at 5 meg and then once or twice a year, manually move them and start over.

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