Trouble writing to EventLog

[Eric Johannsen]

My aspx page can not write to the EventLog "Requested registry access is not
allowed". I have read the posts about ASPNET not having access to create
new event sources, so I created a little installer that pre-creates the
event sources. That installer writes a test entry to the event log for my
source so I can see that it has been created.

Still, the aspx page fails to write to the event log.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Eric

TEST CODE:

btnWriteEventLog_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
EventLog log = new EventLog();
try
{
log.Log = "MyLog";
log.Source = "MySource";
log.WriteEntry("Test", EventLogEntryType.Information);
}
catch (Exception E)
{
string s;
s = E.Message; // E.Message contains: "Requested registry access is
not allowed"
}
}

[Eric Johannsen]

By adding rights, you also create security holes.

From everything I have read, registry access is only required when
creating a new source in the event log. Even the almost-neutered ASPNET
account should be able to write to the event log if it does not have to
register a new source.

One of my other projects does this successfully.

Any other ideas?

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