Windows Service is not logging into log file under special folder

Question

I have created a windows service and i want windows service to log information into log file created under my user profile.I'm using common.logging and in the configuration i have specified my log config as below.

<configSections>
    <section name="quartz" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.5000.0,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
    <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
    <sectionGroup name="common">
      <section name="logging" type="Common.Logging.ConfigurationSectionHandler, Common.Logging" />
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>

  <common>
    <logging>
      <factoryAdapter type="Common.Logging.Log4Net.Log4NetLoggerFactoryAdapter, Common.Logging.Log4net1213">
        <arg key="configType" value="INLINE" />
      </factoryAdapter>
    </logging>
  </common>

  <log4net>
    <appender name="ConsoleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender">
      <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
        <conversionPattern value="%d [%t] %-5p %l - %m%n" />
      </layout>
    </appender>
    <appender name="EventLogAppender" type="log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender">
      <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
        <conversionPattern value="%d [%t] %-5p %l - %m%n" />
      </layout>
    </appender>
    <appender name="FileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender,log4net">
      <file value="${USERPROFILE}\Logs\Log.txt"/>
      <appendToFile value="true"/>
      <lockingModel type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+MinimalLock"/>
      <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
        <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %level %logger - %message%newline"/>
      </layout>
      <filter type="log4net.Filter.LevelRangeFilter">
        <levelMin value="DEBUG"/>
        <levelMax value="FATAL"/>
      </filter>
    </appender>
    <root>
      <level value="ALL" />
      <appender-ref ref="FileAppender" />      
      <appender-ref ref="EventLogAppender" />
    </root>
  </log4net> 

But the windows service is not logging into the log file created under user profile. Service runs under Local System Account.I would like to get lead on the issue.event logs are working fine only the file appender is not working.

Answer 1

The service is logged into the system account as you said that is a different user profile with a different path to the special folder. The simplest way to handle this is to put a symlink from your folder to the admin folder. You can do that with mklink.