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CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION 10
Using the ColdFusion Administrator
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To stop a currently running debugging session, click Stop Debugging.
For the changes that you specify on this page to take effect, restart the ColdFusion server.
Logging Settings page
Use the Logging Settings page of the Administrator to change ColdFusion logging options. The following table
describes the settings:
Log Files page
The Log Files page lets you perform operations on log files, such as searching, viewing, downloading, archiving, and
deleting.
Click a Log File icon located in the Actions column of the Available Log Files table, to search, view, download, archive,
or delete a log file.
Use the Logging Settings page to enable or disable administrative logging options, as the following table describes:
Option
Description
Log Directory
Specifies the directory to which error log files are written.
TIP: Restart ColdFusion after you change this setting.
Maximum File Size (kb)
Sets the maximum file size for log files. When a file reaches this limit, it automatically is archived.
Maximum Number Of Archives
Sets the maximum number of log archives to create. When they reach this limit, files are deleted in
the order of oldest to newest.
Log Slow Pages Taking Longer Than [n]
Seconds
Logs the names of pages that take longer than the specified interval to process. Logging slow
pages can help you diagnose potential problems or bottlenecks in your ColdFusion applications.
Entries are written to the server.log file.
Log All CORBA Calls
Logs all CORBA calls.
Enable Logging For Scheduled Tasks
Logs ColdFusion Executive task scheduling.
Option
Description
Log directory
Select this option to change the location where ColdFusion log files are written.
The location that you specify in this field must have sufficient disk space and security
privileges for the ColdFusion system service.
Maximum file size (KB)
Set the maximum file size for log files. When a file reaches this size, ColdFusion
automatically archives it.
Maximum number of archives
Set the maximum number of log archives to create. After reaching this limit, ColdFusion
deletes files in order of oldest to newest.
(UNIX only) Use operating system
logging facilities
Select this option to log messages using the UNIX syslog logging facility. ColdFusion also
writes log messages to the standard ColdFusion log files.
Log slow pages taking longer than [n]
seconds
Specify the number of seconds that ColdFusion waits before logging the names of pages
that take longer than the specified interval to process. Logging slow pages can help you
diagnose potential problems in your ColdFusion applications. ColdFusion writes entries to
server.log.
Log all CORBA calls
Select this option to log all CORBA calls.
Enable logging for scheduled tasks
Select this option to log ColdFusion Executive task scheduling.