Sybase DC35823-01-1500-04 manual Logging Error Messages and Events, Adaptive Server error logging

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Logging Error Messages and Events

This chapter describes how to use the error logging features of Adaptive Server.

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Adaptive Server error logging

Setting error log paths

Managing messages

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Adaptive Server error logging

Each time Adaptive Server starts, it writes information to a local error log file, called the Adaptive Server error log:

$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/install/server_name.log

This file:

•Stores information about the success or failure of each start-up attempt.

•Logs error and informational messages generated by the server during its operations.

•Remains open until you stop the server process.

•Contains startup messages from Adaptive Server

Note When you want to make more disk space available by reducing the size of the error log, stop Adaptive Server before deleting logged messages. The log file cannot release its memory space until Adaptive Server has stopped.

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