Windows

The only problem with leaving the event log size to be a large size is that they take up disk space on the NT boot drive. As long as you've enough free space there this is not a problem.
You could save the event logs to a *.txt file on a regular basis so you can clear them while still having a record of them.
Rgrds
The Man with the Plan

Here's a better idea. I use a freeware utility called EventSave(URL below)to archive my eventlogs every day. It archive logs by month, and if run more than once a month, it appends the new events to the existing monthly log file.

The archives can then be re-loaded into the Event Viewer at anytime.

http://www.heysoft.de/nt/eventlog/ep-es.htm

By todays standards, a 100 megabyte file is actulay pretty small. There shouldnt be any issues with making the file as large as you need it to accomidate what your trying to capture. I would suggest though you take a look at what your capturing accross the board because some things your capturing might not serve your needs overall and would be a waste to capture anyway. You can also then weekly dump your event logs to text and use a tool like pkzip to compress the logs as text files compress toa very small fraction of what they are in full. You could set your log files to over write after seven days and write a very easy batch file that runs weekly to dump the event files to where ever you want and at the same time, zip them into archives. The only tools you would need is the resouce kit and pkware's command line zip utility that is free.

Pete

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