As a system administrator, it has often been very useful to me to be able to turn on extra logging when I need to. When something is going wrong, there is somet

As a system administrator, it has often been very useful to me to be able to turn on extra logging when I need to. When something is going wrong, there is sometimes no way to tell what information is important and what is not. A lot of the problem with "over logging" may be Windows versus Unix. In the Unix world, your logs are in a flat file and you have a million tools to deal with those logs. In the Windows world, logs are in a database and your gui to view them has an interface which changes every other week.