topic Re: SAS logs in Administration and Deployment

SAS logs

JohnSAScom — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:25:01 GMT

I'm the administrator on a server on which SAS 9.4 is installed. How can I prevent other users on the network from viewing the SAS log files that are produced when I execute SAS programs on my server? SAS/Connect? BI Server? Metadata server?

Re: SAS logs

VDD — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:33:05 GMT

I don't get to play admin process in my job, but you can turn off logging.

Re: SAS logs

SASKiwi — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 02:21:11 GMT

Use OS folder permissions to prevent other users even accessing the folder where you store your SAS logs.

Re: SAS logs

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 07:53:33 GMT

It depends on how you run SAS programs. If you use a workspace server (from EG or Studio), you can modify the logconfig.xml to redirect the logs to the current user's home directory, so users can only view their own (given proper protection of the home dir).

Re: SAS logs

JohnSAScom — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:25:29 GMT

Turning off logging is not an option because I need that for de-bugging and documentation purposes.