TomFace 539 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 (edited) I've run into a situation in the past week where EIS scheduled scans are NOT being logged when I try to view them in the Log menu. They are showing as completed in the scan window and in the scheduler window, but not in the log file. Manual Smart Scans are showing, but not scheduled scan. I have several examples to document this. It's a Win7 x64 machine with all updates current. Any ideas? Regards, Tom Edited May 14, 2019 by TomFace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itman 1,630 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Good luck on this one. As far as I am aware of, there is no Eset setting that controls scan logging. Is the scanned entry missing from the Scan log file or when you open the entry, it won't show any scan log details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFace 539 Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 (edited) It started after 5.4.19. That's when the scheduled scans started not appearing in the log file. Then EIS logged OK on the 9th and then stopped again. I did not cancel any scans midway. I run a scheduled in-depth daily scan. When a scan completes, I can open the scan file (in the just completed scan window) and see the results. It also shows in the scheduler as the "last time run". I have screen shots to document all of this. As I said, if I run a "smart scan" ("scan your computer"), that does show in the scan log. It's quite perplexing. I have not deleted and re-established my daily scan in scheduler as of yet. But, I guess that is what's next. It's a small potato, but I'd just thought I'd ask first. Regards, Tom *********************************************** 5.15.19 Update: I've deleted and re-established the scheduled scan, so we'll see what happens going forward. Edited May 15, 2019 by TomFace added 5.15.19 update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGH1965 12 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 14 hours ago, TomFace said: It started after 5.4.19. That's when the scheduled scans started not appearing in the log file. For me the problem appeared a few days earlier. I reported it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itman 1,630 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 For what it is worth, I gave up on scheduled scans when multiple issues with the feature surfaced after the ver. 12.1.34 upgrade. I am just waiting until the next ver. upgrade to verify that the issue has been resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFace 539 Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 9 minutes ago, AGH1965 said: For me the problem appeared a few days earlier. I reported it here. Not the same issue....my scans are running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGH1965 12 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 1 minute ago, TomFace said: Not the same issue....my scans are running. Same issue. Of course missed scans will never appear in the log file. Scans that run at the wrong time, shall appear though, but since the beginning of April that is no longer the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFace 539 Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 (edited) On 5/15/2019 at 10:48 AM, AGH1965 said: Same issue. Of course missed scans will never appear in the log file. Scans that run at the wrong time, shall appear though, but since the beginning of April that is no longer the case. Whatever... Edited May 16, 2019 by TomFace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFace 539 Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 Well I am still having the same issue after deleting the scheduled scan and re-establishing it. The scan did run, it is showing in the scheduler last run time, I have (all kinds of) screen shots showing that, but it is NOT showing in the tools>log files>scans. Not sure what to do next...really don't feel like uninstalling and re-installing...maybe the next program upgrade will have an affect.... Regards, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 4,935 Posted May 16, 2019 Administrators Share Posted May 16, 2019 No problem here with v12.1.34: Please check if the number of files grows in "C:\ProgramData\ESET\ESET Security\Logs\eScan". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFace 539 Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 (edited) Well it's not working for me. EIS version 12.1.34. Here it is as of 10:41AM EDT I will review file size after todays scan. Thanks & regards, Tom Edited May 16, 2019 by TomFace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itman 1,630 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 13 minutes ago, TomFace said: I will review file size after todays scan. Clear out the Computer scan log and see if that helps. Beginning to believe your issue deals with some type of Eset log file corruption. Are entries being created in other log files such as the Event log? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFace 539 Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 As I practice safe web surfing, most of the other categories in the log file are empty. My events log is full (899) of kernel updates and unable to connect-server not found (I do not stay connected to the internet when I'm not in front of my machine). I do have one blocked website, but otherwise it's empty. I have log maintenance scheduled once a week. So, that being said, should I first verify the increase in the log size as Marcos suggested, or just clear the log now? Regards, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 4,935 Posted May 16, 2019 Administrators Share Posted May 16, 2019 The next step is to check if the number of files in C:\ProgramData\ESET\ESET Security\Logs\eScan rises each time a scheduled scan is due to run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFace 539 Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 OK....will do. Thanks Marcos. Regards, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGH1965 12 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 In my case every entry in the log corresponds with one file in C:\ProgramData\ESET\ESET Security\Logs\eScan. So scheduled scans that ran but did not appear in the log, don't have a file in C:\ProgramData\ESET\ESET Security\Logs\eScan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFace 539 Posted May 17, 2019 Author Share Posted May 17, 2019 (edited) Marcos it looks like the #count has not increased. What now? Let me know please. Regards, Tom Edited May 17, 2019 by TomFace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFace 539 Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 Good news...2 (or 3) days ago I did delete my scan logs (as per itman's suggestion) and for the past 2 days my scheduled scans are now logging. What I'll probably do is update my log maintenance so as to not have so many logs just sitting there. Thanks again itman. Regards, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itman 1,630 Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 12 hours ago, TomFace said: What I'll probably do is update my log maintenance so as to not have so many logs just sitting there. Don't believe it's due to log entry volume, but you can look at your existing Eset scheduled log maintenance task and verifying that it is running probably. My best guess is the log file got corrupted somehow. Chalk it up to one of those "s*!t happens" Windows happenings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGH1965 12 Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 On 5/16/2019 at 4:55 PM, itman said: Clear out the Computer scan log and see if that helps. Also in my case this solved the problem. Thanks! It is quite a coincidence though, that both TomFace's computer scan log and mine stopped working in the beginning of April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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