Cannot view Event Logs

[Vicente Zambrano]

A Domain Controller in my organization stopped responding,
so we had to restart it. After that, when we wantted to
find out what had happened in the Event viewer, we
couldn't see anything in Application Log and System Log
and this message showed up:

Unable to complete the operation on "System Log" Access is
denied.

What can I do to solve this?

Thanks

 

[Dave Patrick]

For the application log the temporary fix;
You might try changing the file properties to "Overwrite as needed"

The more permanent fix;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829246&Product=win2000

For the system log; the file may be corrupt. Control Panel|Administrative
Tools|Services|Event Log Service|General, set the "Startup Type:" to
"Disabled" restart the pc, then delete (or move) the corrupt *.evt file(s)
from %windir%\system32\config then set the Event Log Service "Startup Type:"
back to "Automatic", restart for effect.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
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:
|A Domain Controller in my organization stopped responding,
| so we had to restart it. After that, when we wantted to
| find out what had happened in the Event viewer, we
| couldn't see anything in Application Log and System Log
| and this message showed up:
|
| Unable to complete the operation on "System Log" Access is
| denied.
|
| What can I do to solve this?
|
| Thanks