Milton,

Thanks for the script.  Was about to ask how l4d and l4d2 logged.

I'll test it out now.

-f0rkz

On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 09:39 -0800, Milton Ngan wrote:
> In left4dead and left4dead2, the srcds_run wrapper supports and extra option 
> -consolelog. This launches a program called "logger" which is expected to be 
> in the bin directory of your install. I never shipped this utility since it 
> was something only I was using, and it will not work out of the box since it 
> uses a perl module that is not installed by default. But if there is a need 
> for that sort of thing, I can share the script with you. It is a Perl Expect 
> script. A simple redirection will not work because the srcds_linux writes 
> directly to the terminal not stdout. 
> 
> The -consolelog option isn't available in the orangebox/CS:S games, but it is 
> easy to add this. I have included the code for the "logger" script below. It 
> is a very simple wrapper. Make of it what you will. "logger" takes the path 
> to the console log as the first argument. The rest of the arguments are 
> assumed to be the command you want run. But by doing this, you are giving up 
> the ability to interact with the console. That shouldn't be an issue if you 
> have netconn or rcon setup, which is the way I interact with our servers. 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use Expect;
> use File::Basename;
> use File::Path;
> use strict;
> 
> my $log_file = shift @ARGV;
> my $log_dir = dirname($log_file);
> mkpath($log_dir) unless -d $log_dir;
> 
> my $expect = new Expect;
> $expect->log_file($log_file);
> $expect->spawn(@ARGV);
> $expect->expect(undef);
> exit($?);
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of f0rkz
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 7:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [hlds_linux] Logging console output
> 
> Ok.  I know there is logging built into games using the Log on cvar.
> What I need is the actual contents of the console captured to a log
> file.  I noticed srcds_run is a shell script that execs another program
> so redirecting the output to a log file isn't possible.  Does anyone
> have any tricks or scripts to log the output of srcds_run and any of the
> exec'd programs under it?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> f0rkz
> 
> 
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