Hello to all,
I have interesting problem with RollingFileAppender in ASP.Net webservice. When webservice run on IIS on Windows XP, all works well, log file is rolled over days.

But when it was deployed to IIS running on the Windows 2003 Server, logging still work, but…. Log file is not rolled over, messages are still written into single file !

Has anybody similar experience or (better) knowledge what goes wrong?
I am not sure if there can be problem with rights, but initially webservice was able to create log file. What permissions are needed for logging from ASP.Net applications? And for which accounts? There are differences between Win XP, Win 2003 server and Win 2003 domain controller. My server is win2003 standalone server, not in any domain.

Here is my code:

public class SyncServ : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
        private static log4net.ILog log;

        public SyncServ()
        {
                log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure();
                log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(this.GetType());
        }
        [WebMethod]
        public bool SomeMethod()
        {
                log.Debug("some message");
                // do some work
                return true;
        }
               
}

Here's my web config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<configuration>
        <configSections>
                <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
                <sectionGroup name="applicationSettings" type="System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsGroup, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />

        </configSections>
        <appSettings>
                <add key="Server" value="." />
                <add key="SysPath" value="F:\data\Ivs\" />
                <add key="PullBatchSize" value="200" />
        </appSettings>
    <connectionStrings />
 
    <system.web>
        <compilation debug="true" />
        <authentication mode="Windows" />
    </system.web>
    <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <add value="SyncServ.asmx" />
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>
    </system.webServer>
        <log4net>
                <!-- Define some output appenders -->
                <appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
                        <file value="Log/Web.log" />
                        <appendToFile value="true" />
                        <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
                                <conversionPattern value="%date %-5level %message%newline" />
                        </layout>
                        <rollingStyle value="Date" />
                        <Threshold value="DEBUG" />
                </appender>
                <root>
                        <level value="ALL" />
                        <appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />
                </root>
        </log4net>
</configuration>

With regards Radovan Raszka
Software development dept.
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