Viewing Event Logs at the Advanced Server Command Prompt

The Advanced Server elfread command can be used to read system, security and application logs. This command is especially useful when troubleshooting an Advanced Server that has failed to start. (Events of this type typically are written to the system log.) The elfread command should be used as a backup to the Event Viewer, which is the recommended method of viewing log files when the server is running.

To use the event log reader

At the Advanced Server command prompt, type

elfread [-od] logname

Replace logname with one of the following log types:

system, security, or application

To display the log file contents listing the oldest event first, use the -o option. To display detailed information about events, use the -d option.

If no options are specified, a summary of all events in the specified log is displayed in reverse chronological order.