[openbox] Location of debug logs

Ɓukasz Grabowski graboluk at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 16:04:03 EST 2017


For wahtever it's worth I think the suggestion was to symlink
/I/want/my/logs/here.symlink --> ~/.cache/openbox/openbox.log
i.e. here.symlink would be a log?

Lukasz

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:16:07 -0800
Ian Zimmerman <itz at very.loosely.org> wrote:

> On 2017-11-17 14:46, Dana Jansens wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Ian Zimmerman
> > <itz at very.loosely.org> wrote:  
> 
> > > > Openbox logs also go to ~/.cache/openbox/openbox.log by
> > > > default.  
> > >
> > > I hate this location.  Is it possible to change it in the
> > > configuration or on the command line?  
> > 
> > No but you can make a symlink to it (or from it to somewhere else)
> > if you want to use another path?  
> 
> Actually, I tried that.  Symlinking the file itself doesn't work; the
> symlink gets replaced with a real file next time openbox starts.
> 
> Symlinking the directory works, of course.  It's ugly but I guess it's
> the best that can be done short of patching :-P
> 
> Thanks.
> 



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