Red Eclipse Logging Trick

[ZeroKnight]

Hey guys, I have a little batch file hack here that involves Red Eclipse logging. For those of you that don't know, every time you launch Red Eclipse, everything that gets output to the console and chat console gets logged to a text file in the Red Eclipse home directory.

I like having an archive of logs, so I added this to my redeclipse.bat file:

--NOTE-- THIS DOES NOT WORK ON LINUX, AS BASH HAS DIFFERENT SHELL CODE. PLEASE SEE ARAND'S POST BELOW.

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rem -- ZeroKnight Log Hack --
@for /F "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=/ " %%A in ('Date /t') do @(
set notused=%%A
set month=%%B
set day=%%C
set year=%%D
set fulldate=%%B-%%C-%%D
)
@for /F "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=:." %%A in ('echo %TIME%') do @(
set hour=%%A
set minute=%%B
set second=%%C
set notused=%%D
set fulltime=%%A.%%B.%%C
)
set LOGNAME=%fulldate%_%fulltime%.txt
rem -- END ZeroKnight Log Hack --

rem set SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS=0,0
set RE_DIR=.
set RE_OPTIONS=-glogs/%LOGNAME% -r


That shell code could probably be better written, but for here's an explanation for those who do not understand. What it does is grab the system's current date and time, and make that the name of the log file, and they all go inside a folder called "logs" inside the home folder.
The log naming scheme is: MM-DD-YYYY_HH.mm.SS.txt

Where M is Month, D is Day, Y is Year, H is Hours, m is Minutes, and S is Seconds.

So, for example, you could have "01-15-2012_19.38.13.txt" as one of your logs. The cool part about this, is that every time you start Red Eclipse, a new log file will be created, since the time will always be different :) With this method, you can have an archive of logs, through any number of startups. This is good for anyone who likes logging information, and especially for server admins who don't have access to the local server.

Enjoy, guys! Just be sure to delete old logs every now and again, otherwise you'll accumulate quite a lot of disk space to these logs :P

[arand]

Since I'm bored, I'll ninja:

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LOGDIR="logs"
LOGNAME=$(date -I)_$(date +%T).log
RE_OPTIONS="-r -g$LOGDIR/$LOGNAME"


(Not Tested.)
I think something like that should do pretty much the same for *NIX, log rotation should be added I guess, though that would include making sure not compressing or deleting the currently in-use log, and... nah, aint bovverd.

EDIT: -g needs a relative path from $HOME/.redeclipse/, updated script accordingly.

[ZeroKnight]

I echo'd LOGNAME inside of cygwin, and it shows up as a valid filename :)

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$ echo $LOGNAME
2012-01-18_17:27:06.log

Thank you, arand. :)

[Fallen]

Here's my version (sorry, I'm noob, but maybe someone want's to see that I'm not only playing 24/7 :P):

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#!/bin/sh
#uncomment that line and enter your RedEclipse location or redeclipse/bin/ if you use just unpacked version and want to have this script on another location that /redeclipse/bin/ (like direcly downloaded from sourgeforge etc.).
#cd ~/data/redeclipse/bin/
#change to "redeclipse" instead of "./reclient_linux_32" if you have installed RE from repo etc, if not make sure that it's correct version (reclient_linux_32/reclient_linux_64/reclient). You can change ~/data/redeclipse/log/ to location where you want log files to be stored - MAKE SURE that this location EXIST before launching, this script will NOT create this location for you!.
./reclient_linux_32 | tee ~/data/redeclipse/log/`date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S"`_RedEclipse.txt

[arand]

Just to note, since it was discussed briefly in IRC, in order to place the logs in a custom place and not somewhere below the home dir, you could also use

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LOGDIR="/tmp/logs"
LOGNAME=$(date -I)_$(date +%T).log
RE_OPTIONS="-r 2>&1 1>$LOGDIR/$LOGNAME"


In either redeclipse.sh for a tarball version or /[bin,games]/redeclipse in the installed version