Logging troubles

Posted by Loverofmushclient on Fri 14 May 2004 11:38 PM — 12 posts, 37,560 views.

#0
I am sorry if I am doing something ignorant, but I am having trouble with autologging. I have autologging set, but it only logged my first session, and does not log any more. What I want is to have one file, where it appends every session I have to that text file. I have autologging set to abrealms.txt, and when I click on file it says log session, and it is checked. It does not log at all, however. I can give more information if needed, but if at all possible, could anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong? Thanks for any help.
Australia Forum Administrator #1
Do you define a session as opening the world and closing it, or connecting and disconnecting?
Greece #2
MUclient does what you want, I don't understand why it won't work for you... Are you sure you set all the parameters correctly in the world preferences in the logging tab?
#3
Well, when I said session I mean each time I connect and disconnect, but i would like it to append to the file all of the text that comes in, no matter what session, i just want one long log. Under logging I have Log Output checked, It says automatcially log to this file, C:\Program Files\MUSHclient\logs\abrealms.txt

Other than that there are no other boxes that I have checked under logging except for write world name to file.
I do have a preamble: %A %B %d %H:%I:%M

Thank you guys for replying. I'll keep trying to get it to work.
Australia Forum Administrator #4
There is no "append" option for the auto-logging, I suppose I thought that if you auto-appended the file would eventually get huge.

I will make a note to add that, however I suggest you use the date/time special characters to get it to create a new log file each time (for now anyway).
#5
Ok, thank you for your help.
Greece #6
Uh, I don't understand. I use a log file for every session, and MUclient appends to that file, which becomes quite huge over time, some GB long, containing many sessions. Or am I talking about something else?
USA #7
You know... my HTML auto-logging is automatically appending to the end of the log file every time. Perhaps it works for HTML but not for plaintext? I doubt it... in any case, mine auto-appends just fine.

Maybe you have to set auto-logging in the world settings, not in global settings.
Australia Forum Administrator #8
Maybe set "append to log files" in the *global* logging preferences?
USA #9
I have that turned off, but it still is appending in the world log file. Odd...
Greece #10
Ah yes, that was the option that made MC append for me. Have you set that, Loverofmushclient?
Australia Forum Administrator #11
According to the source code, auto-log will always append.