• MUTIL log rolling

    From Immortal@21:1/185 to All on Sunday, January 15, 2017 09:44:00
    Does the log rolling feature in mutil work or am I doing something wrong?
    I have 5 or so .ini files for different purposes, all of them have the same
    log rolling settings. I've tried playing around with them, changing from rolling by size to by date, etc. I deleted all the logs the other day, my current settings are below:

    ; Log roller type 0=roll by number of files/size 1=roll by number of
    logtype = 0

    ; number of log files to keep (0 to disable log rolling)
    maxlogfiles = 7

    ; size of each log file in kilobytes
    maxlogsize = 250

    I now have a single mutil.log file which is over 10 megs. It doesn't appear
    to be doing what it should be.

    Immortal

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Immortal on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 20:28:00

    On 01/15/17, Immortal pondered and said...

    Does the log rolling feature in mutil work or am I doing something
    wrong? I have 5 or so .ini files for different purposes, all of them

    Here's mine for a windows system

    [snip]

    logfile=mutil.log

    ; Level 1 = basic
    ; Level 2 = verbose
    ; Level 3 = debug

    loglevel=3

    ; logfile time stamp. defaults to NNN DD HH:II:SS if not set here
    ; logstamp = YYYYHHMMHHIISS

    ; Log roller type 0=roll by number of files/size 1=roll by number of days
    logtype = 1

    ; number of log files to keep (0 to disable log rolling)
    maxlogfiles = 35

    ; size of each log file in kilobytes
    maxlogsize = 1500

    [snip]

    logs the other day, my current settings are below:

    ; Log roller type 0=roll by number of files/size 1=roll by
    number of logtype = 0
    ; number of log files to keep (0 to disable log rolling)
    maxlogfiles = 7
    ; size of each log file in kilobytes
    maxlogsize = 250

    Hmm.... do you have logtype=0 clearly defined on a line of it's own?

    If not then there's your problem.

    Immortal

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    Check file permissions in the log folder also... are they ok?

    Best, Paul

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