Hi, I’m going through the Powershell in a Month of Lunches book, and in one lab task in the Appendix it asks me to “run a command that modifies the Security event log to overwrite old events as needed.” I run this command,
limit-eventlog -logname security -overflow overwriteolder
which I know is the correct cmdlet, but I get this error:
limit-eventlog : Specify a valid value for the number of retention days.
At line:1 char:1
- limit-eventlog -overflowaction OverwriteOlder -logname security
-
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Limit-EventLog], Exception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidArgument,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.LimitEventLogCommand
Anyone know what I’m doing wrong? There’s already a valid value for the number of retention days when I ran
get-eventlog.