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Posted by Arsen   (44 posts)  Bio
Date Wed 07 Aug 2002 12:43 AM (UTC)
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I cant figure out how to get the logging to work, it says in the MS-DOS window that it is logging, but when I go to the log folder, the only file there is "empty", what should I do? I want to keep the logs so that I can look at them later. HELP! thanks.

Arsen
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Wed 07 Aug 2002 01:50 AM (UTC)

Amended on Wed 07 Aug 2002 01:51 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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I think that is part of the startup shell script. Logging is done to stdout and stderr, and under Unix you would normally redirect the output to a file. eg. something like this:


../src/smaug > ../log/my_log_file.txt


The above redirects stdout but not stderr. I'm not sure if that will do. To redirect both, try this:


../src/smaug &> ../log/my_log_file.txt


This is similar to what is in the startup script. Similar but not identical, perhaps because of variations between the shells ...


set port = 4000
set logfile = ../log/$index.log
# Record starting time
date > $logfile
date > ../area/boot.txt

# Run SMAUG.
../src/smaug $port >&! $logfile


If you are not running under Cygwin, just try simple redirection:


../src/smaug > ../log/my_log_file.txt
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Arsen   (44 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Wed 07 Aug 2002 02:34 AM (UTC)
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could you please say that in english? lol
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Posted by Kain   USA  (43 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #3 on Fri 09 Aug 2002 12:23 AM (UTC)
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I've had a long day, so this may or may not answer your question but...

I'm using version of Smaug compiled for windows and I have two directories (log and logs) that have nothing in them. But when I go into my system directory and open up bugs.txt, there some information in there
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #4 on Fri 09 Aug 2002 02:39 AM (UTC)
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Quote:

could you please say that in english? lol


OK, how you you currently start SMAUG?

Do you have a command (DOS) window, and do something like this:


cd c:\smaug\area
..\src\smaug


If so, just change it to:


cd c:\smaug\area
..\src\smaug > ..\log\my_log_file.txt


What "redirect" means is "send the output to", so you are sending the stuff that normally appears in the window, to a file.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Arsen   (44 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #5 on Thu 24 Apr 2003 02:02 AM (UTC)
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I STILL cannot get my logfile to work, I have tried everything you said, but nothing works
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Posted by Arsen   (44 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #6 on Thu 17 Jul 2003 03:05 AM (UTC)
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I still have never gotten it to "send the output" to the logfile. My mud runs fine but nothing is added to the file.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #7 on Thu 17 Jul 2003 05:25 AM (UTC)
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Do you see the messages on the screen?
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Garaelb   (54 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #8 on Wed 23 Jul 2003 12:40 PM (UTC)
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I have a similar problem -

I don't use cygwin - and to start SMAUG I click an icon on my win98 desktop.

My smaug.exe is not in the AREA subdir it is in the main SMAUG dir. along with a couple of txt files and SmaugGrux.exe

I looked in my log folder and all I see is empty 0KB - I have show all file types and all hidden files marked but this empty doesn't have a file extension.

if you need more info than what I have provided let me know - but my log file doesn't work either.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #9 on Wed 23 Jul 2003 09:56 PM (UTC)
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You need to redirect stderr. In plain English this means type:


smaug /run 2> log/smauglog.txt


I tried that and it works. In the log subdirectory will now be a file smauglog.txt.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Garaelb   (54 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #10 on Wed 23 Jul 2003 11:49 PM (UTC)
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here is exactly what I typed form the DOS command prompt in windows 98Se

C:\smaug /run 2> log/smauglog.txt

what that returned was

SMAUG1.4a
Usage is :-
Smaug -runs as a service, or stand alone
Smaug /run -runs stand alone
Smaug /start -starts this service
Smaug /stop -stops this service
Smaug /install -installs this service
Smaug /remove -removes or un-installs this service
Smaug /status -displays the status of this service
Smaug /help -displays information on this service

C:\smaug>

I checked the log subdir and it was still empty 0kb


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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #11 on Thu 24 Jul 2003 03:53 AM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 24 Jul 2003 03:54 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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Hmm - I see. It works under NT. :)

See this page, it describes the problem ...


http://home.att.net/~myitpro/support.htm


(search for "stderr" on that page)

Basically the problem is that we want to redirect stderr (standard error output) but can't under Windows 95/98.

That page has links to small programs that will solve the problem. I haven't tested it, but it looks exactly what you want.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Arsen   (44 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #12 on Thu 24 Jul 2003 04:29 AM (UTC)
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It's still not working, I typed exactly what you told me to (except I added the necessary address for the smaug file) and nothing happened, the mud didn't even start.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #13 on Thu 24 Jul 2003 04:43 AM (UTC)
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Did you download one of the helper files I mentioned above? What did you type? (It would be different when using them).
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Arsen   (44 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #14 on Thu 24 Jul 2003 04:45 AM (UTC)
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nevermind, I just got it figured out with basically what you told me to do. I checked the file that was supposed to be the log and found out that it was starting the mud, just on no port, so what I typed was:
../src/smaug 3600 /run 2> ../log/log.txt &

thanks Nick
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