Goal
I want to press a button on my GUI and read in the seclog.log file (symantec AV log) from a remote machine and display the contents of the log to a rich text box in my application.
Things That Work
everything but reading the log file
Error Message
System.IO.IOException was unhandled
Message=The process cannot access the file '\\HOSTNAME\C$\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\seclog.log' because it is being used by another process.
Source=mscorlib
code
//possible seclog paths
String seclogPath1 = @"\\\\" + target + "\\C$\\Program Files (x86)\\Symantec\\Symantec Endpoint Protection\\seclog.log";
String seclogPath2 = @"\\\\" + target + "\\C$\\Program Files\\Symantec\\Symantec Endpoint Protection\\seclog.log";
//if seclog exists
if (File.Exists(seclogPath1))
{
//output.AppendText("file exists at " + seclogPath1);
//var seclogContent = File.Open(seclogPath1, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
Stream stream = File.OpenRead(seclogPath1);
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(stream);
string str = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
output.AppendText(str);
streamReader.Close();
stream.Close();
}
Things I've Tried
File is being used by another process
C# The process cannot access the file ''' because it is being used by another process
Googling the issue
using filestreams in multiple ways
//possible seclog paths
String seclogPath1 = @"\\\\" + target + "\\C$\\Program Files (x86)\\Symantec\\Symantec Endpoint Protection\\seclog.log";
String seclogPath2 = @"\\\\" + target + "\\C$\\Program Files\\Symantec\\Symantec Endpoint Protection\\seclog.log";
//if seclog exists
if (File.Exists(seclogPath1))
{
//output.AppendText("file exists at " + seclogPath1);
//var seclogContent = File.Open(seclogPath1, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
Stream stream = File.Open(seclogPath1, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
//File.OpenRead(seclogPath1);
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(stream);
string str = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
output.AppendText(str);
streamReader.Close();
stream.Close();
}
what i had to change
i had to create a readwrite filestream
original code
Stream stream = File.OpenRead(seclogPath1);
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(stream);
new code
Stream stream = File.Open(seclogPath1, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
//File.OpenRead(seclogPath1);
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(stream);