Writing to EventLog

[DJ]

I've created a new EventLog for mail services in my web application. Each
time a mail is sent, it is recorded in the eventlog for later review. This
works fine when I am on my development machine (Windows XP Pro), but when I
try to do this on my test server (Windows 2003) I get the security error
message that I don't have the permissions to write to the log.

The EventLog is my own, not one of the base 3 that is in Windows. I saw how
to change the permissions in the registry to allow ASPNET permission to
access the logs, but I don't want that, thus the reason for creating my own
EventLog.

Is there a way to provide permission to ASPNET for specific EventLogs?

Thanks in advance.

 

[bruce barker]

you need to add your custom eventlog node to the registery and set
permission. as asp.net is not an admin on the test box, you must do this for
it.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

 

[Mike]

What you could do is create a Class and have that write to your EventLog.
I've done that and its used by an web app and web service and I didn't have
to setup any special permission for it to work.