Logfile truncation - any way to disable?

[dguntner]

I'm running the current NWNX on my Linux server. It's a pretty simple, basic setup. All I have is nwnx2.so and nwnx_odbc.so in the server directory. It's been a while since I ran the server, so I did have to get everything up to date.

My logs.0 directory ends up with a nwnx2.txt and nwnx_odmbc.txt file, holding the logs for those libraries. All good so far. However, I've discovered that every time I stop and restart the server, the log files get truncated and it starts over again from an empty file. I would prefer it to *not* do that - I've got log rotation scripts in place to handle that (one of them takes care of the main nwserver log, in fact), and I would prefer to rotate my logs via those scripts. Problem is, there's not much to rotate when it keeps getting rewritten from scratch each time I restart the game.

Is there an option I can put in my nwnx2.ini file to tell it to not truncate those log files upon startup?

Also, in the new .ini file which came with the current version, I noticed a section which reads:

[NWNX]
disablenwnxinit=n #Set to "y" to not enforce the NWNX!INIT requirement


Is there any reason why I would want to turn that on? What exactly is the benefit one way or the other?

Thanks in advance!

--Dave

[Zebranky]

I don't think there's such an option right now, though it would certainly be possible. The canonical way to rotate those logs right now is via the startup script, a la http://www.nwnx.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=13324#13324. This is probably the safest approach anyway, since it provides some level of certainty that the server isn't accessing those logs when you're rotating them.

NWNX!INIT is a legacy requirement, I believe. Judging by how long non-enforcement has been an option, it's safe to disable (though the only benefit that gets you is the ease of use of not having to call NWNX!INIT before anything else).
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[dguntner]

[Nabla]

A easy solution without touching nwnx2 source si to modify the startup script in having a secondary file (named log in my case) that contain the current week log and where nwnxlog is the nwnxlog file.

[dguntner]

Yea, that would work! Sometimes, the simplest solutions are the best; that's what I get for trying to over-think it.

Thanks!

--Dave