You might think the Console.log belongs Console.exe. That’s right, but that’s a different thing than the Windows Command prompt that many people call console, but is in fact C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe on a default Windows installation.
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs>dir console.log
It belongs to the SBS 2008 console which you can access using the https://sbs2008serverIP/remote (for more details, read [WayBack] Accessing Windows SBS Console) and is served by:
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Bin\console.exe
It is started when any user logs on (which is sort of odd) and never log-rotates the log file but keeps the log file locked when the process executes.
So the only way to get rid of a really big console.log file is this:
- Terminate console.exe in the Task Scheduler (
taskschd.msc) - Move away the old
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs>dir console.logfile - Start console.exe in the Task Scheduler or logoff/logon
Further reading:
- [WayBack] SBS 2008 Console Log Fix – Techkiwi’s Blog
- [WayBack] Further SBS 2008 Space Fixes – Techkiwi’s Blog
- [WayBack] How To Enable Verbose Logging For Most SBS 2008 Wizards and Console | The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog
–jeroen
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