Restoring the CF Admin logviewer removed in Oct 2022 CF updates, at your own risk

After update 5 to my Coldfusion 2021, my FuseGuard program would not work. It complained about log access. Putting 2 and 2 together, I used the old folders you provided, and FuseGuard is working again.

Thank you for this post.

Thank you for taking the time to provide this solution. I had thought there was a bug causing this issue. After depending on these log files for a variety of purposes over the years it's a pain to have them forcibly removed. At a minimum it seems like we should be able to have the functionality in development environments. More information from Adobe on the security risk specifics would be nice.

Again, many thanks. I have kind of "ignored" the issue by going and rooting around to find the log files and open them manually. Today though I was in a bind needing to reference logging on a development project over and over and this really helped me out.

Peter, there are a couple of reasons the "log files" page remains in the admin. First, there are still the remaining actions which can be performed against the logs, from the ability to archive any of the listed log files to the ability to enable/disable some of the log files. (I do realize some folks never perform either action, so to them the page may as well not exist.)

Second, the page still a) lists all the files (for those who may not know they exist), and b) shows the size and last update date for each log (which could be of some value in some situations, I suppose).

All that said, clearly I am still of the opinion that there SHOULD be an ability to VIEW the logs. Whatever led them to remove it (still a mystery to me), it seems they should be able to SOLVE it so as to return this functionality.

Good point, Nick. I'd argue the same about the great value if they'd do that also on the Java and jvm page, showing how that info is saved to the jvm.config, and showing its path.

Of course, some might argue that "anyone who administers a cf admin should already know these locations", but it's not true. They could also argue that putting the info here could aid hackers, and I could argue they really DO tend to already know such things! :-)

But I could understand if they're torn about which way to go. I'm not so sure they've really considered it, so again good for you to raise the point. Better if you'd file a feature request, at tracker.adobe.com. :-)