[cod] Log file rotation

[VG Ops]

Hmmmm. With or without logsync, a map_restart / map_rotate always 
refreshes the file handle. I can delete the games_mp.log and a 
map_restart will cause it to be recreated.

I guess it would be possible to write a cron script to use rcon to 
change g_log to a different filename, and if next time it runs, it 
detects that a file with the new file name exists, it can rotate out the 
old one.

There should be a better way of doing this though.... :-/


Josh Wright wrote:

>You'll need logsync set to 1 for this to work.  Otherwise it only writes
>the log at every map_rotate (and writes it slowly for the first few
>minutes of the new map to avoid lag I guess).
>
>It can be used in the cfg file or from the command line.
>set g_logsync "1"
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>-Josh
>www.mwhq.net
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: VG Ops [mailto:info at valuegaming.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 9:56 AM
>To: cod at icculus.org
>Subject: [cod] Log file rotation
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>Has anyone had any problems with setting up log file rotation. If find 
>that if I move the games_mp.log file (to say games_mp.1.gz) then CoD 
>does not start a new games_mp.log and wont write to an empty 
>games_mp.log put in its place (a touched file). In fact, the only way I 
>seem able to get cod to start writing to the log is to restart the 
>server. :-(
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>Ideally I'd like to rotate the logs every hour as part of a cron job 
>which also updates the mohstats (I don't want mohstats to keep reading 
>the same data in the file and create duplicate entries in the stats).
>
>VG ops
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