Question

I have a windows service that generates logs as it does some execution. I also do console.writeline call for every log message I write into the log file. But since its a windows service the console.write line is not visible.

I want to write a C# console application program that can attach to my service (already running) and it could just show all console.writeline messages that the process (my windows service) is generating.

updated: The volume of log is very frequent ( 50 messages every minute) , I would prefer not want to crowd windows event log for this. Using a cosole window helps to look at logs and exit on convenience

Answer 1

I used cygwin to tail on the log file thats created by log4net this seems to do the trick for me.

Thanks for all the help!