Upon start-up, Adaptive Server, it writes information to a local error log file, called
the Adaptive Server error log.
Logging to the Adaptive Server error log is always enabled.
However, when you create or modify a specific user-defined message,
you can set it to be omitted from the log.
The error log file,
$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/install/server_name.log:
Stores
information about the success or failure of each start-up attempt
Logs error and informational messages generated
by the server during its operations
Remains open until you stop the server process
Contains start-up messages from Adaptive Server
If the error log become too large, you can:
Use sp_errorlog to dynamically change its path. Once the older error log is
not being used by Adaptive Server, you can move it,
and make space available.
Stop the Adaptive Server and delete logged messages.
See Diagnosing System Problems in the System Administraton Guide for a
description of the error log format.