NT4 Sever Error, No one can log in.

[sekser]

Hi All,

Never seem this, but this morning no one was able to log in. When i went to the server a little window said The System Log File is Full.
I logged onto the machine as a Admin and checked the Event Viewer.

In there there was a whole bunch of this error

Jet Database Call returned the following error -510

This spanned over 2 days, 3/2/02 and 3/3/02

What is this ?


This is on a NT4 SP5 High Encryption (PDC)

Thanks,
Bobby

 

[Woodie]

Hmmm. Are you sure it was the System Log and not the Security Log?

One of the options for the Event Logs is to prevent any logins when the Security Log is full.

In any case, you should probably change your Event log settings (for all the logs) so that they're not as full. This sounds as if your logfile is set to wrap, but only to delete data that's greater than 7 days old. What happens is that you have filled the log with only 4 days of data, so it can't delete any data (because it's too new) and it can't log any new data (because it's full).

The explanation doesn't sound too clear, so post back w/ your findings.

 

[Agamar]

Yeah, I would set the logs to fill up until 256k, then clear from the bottom starting at 5 days. Unless you have a huge amount of activity, you shouldn't run into problems there.

 

[Woodie]

256K???

We have our Sec log set to 40MB, and we wrap it 3-5 times per day. (W2K, Domain Controller, PDCE) And that's without full auditing!

YMMV...

 

[millsy]

you know you are killing resources auditing that many logs all the time..

you should only audit if you have constant security issues.

 

[Woodie]

Federal Reserve Board says we have to audit...and we have to keep the logs for archival, too.

 

[sekser]

hi,

I increased the log settings from 512 to 1024 for all three.
But this error, i did a search on, i guess what's causing all those red entries in the event viewer is a corrupt DHCP database file. Take a look at microsoft article Q173396

So hopefully this won't come up again till i try this fix this weekend.

Thanks