What is a the 'best practice' for location of windows service logfiles?

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Published on 2009-01-29T15:26:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 21:23 UTC
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A lot of windows services write daily log files to their application installation directory under "program files".

Windows system apps (eg IIS) use %SystemRoot%\System32\LogFiles. Is something I should do for my service?

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