Serilog SelfLog to File Error

Question

I need to enable self log of seri logger to text file. My configuration are follows;

__serilogLogger = new LoggerConfiguration()
      .Enrich.WithProperty("ApplicationIPv4", _ipv4)
      .Enrich.WithProperty("ApplicationIPv6", _ipv6)
      .WriteTo.MSSqlServer(connectionString, tableName /*, columnOptions: columnOptions*/)
      .WriteTo
      .Seq(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SerilogServer"])
      .CreateLogger();

      var file = File.CreateText("Self.log");
      Serilog.Debugging.SelfLog.Enable(TextWriter.Synchronized(file));

But is hows File access error when run the application. Please find the error details below;

Additional information: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\Self.log' because it is being used by another process.

Can anyone help me on this

Answer 1

You must have another instance of this application running when it comes to this line. Or maybe this code is somehow being invoked twice? Check taskmanager and kill anything that maybe using it. If this is a web app try recycling the app pool.