<div dir="ltr">I found the problem. Windows User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista. <div><br></div><div>From Wiki (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control</a>) :</div><div>=====>". . . <span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">if an application attempts to write to a directory such as "C:\Program Files\appname\settings.ini" to which the user does not have write permission, the write will be redirected to "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\appname\settings.ini" <========</span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">I looked in </span>C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\icecast\logs and found the created logs by Icecast. The other solution is to disable Windows UAC and then run Icecast with administrator privileges, which can successfully write the log files to C:\Program Files\Icecast\log.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:21 AM Rondejavu <<a href="mailto:rondejavu@gmail.com">rondejavu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I’m not an expert, and I’m on a Pi, but this works for me...<br>
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<paths><br>
<logdir> /home/pi/icecast2/logs</logdir><br>
</paths><br>
<loglevel>4</loglevel><br>
<br>
Save a blank error.log text file in the location. <br>
<br>
-Pete<br>
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> On Dec 29, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Dan Packard <<a href="mailto:contact@kusaradio.com" target="_blank">contact@kusaradio.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I'm running Icecast in a Windows 32 bit environment. The icecast.xml path points to C:\Program Files\Icecast\log for <logdir>. <logging><loglevel> is set to 3.<br>
> <br>
> However, no logs are created at that location. :(<br>
> <br>
> Thanks for any leads.<br>
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