Question

I’ve been messing with this all day and have still not found a solution. I have created a windows service that is supposed to log to it’s install directory (Program Files/Service/LOGS/)

But when I run my service it doesn’t do what I would expect it to do and it doesn’t log anythying. I’m having a hell of a time figuring out what the problem is without any sort of logging. Below is the class I am using for logging, can anyone see what I am doing wrong? I have even tried giving “Everyone” all permissions on the LOGS folder to see if that was the issue (but no luck).

public class Logging
{
    public static void Log(string message)
    {

        string logFile = "LOGS/" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd") + ".txt";
        if (!Directory.Exists("LOGS"))
        {
            Directory.CreateDirectory("LOGS");
        }

        File.AppendAllText(logFile, message);

    }
}

The service successfully starts and there are no errors in my Windows Event Viewer…

UPDATE:

I have changed my log path to the following and am still having no luck:

string logFile = @"F:\LOGS\" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd") + ".txt";

Answer 1

So you are now writing to F:\LOGS\, but:

• What account are you using to run your service? Is that account able to write to F:\LOGS\?
• Also, Did you configure that folder so that “Everyone” has “Full control” of it?