Hi,
Does this belong in this forum? If not I apologise .. perhaps a pointer to the right place would help?

I am running BOINC as a service 24/7 (almost), opening boincmgr only occasionally. My system issues a NET STOP BOINC and NET START BOINC three times a week at night during system backups and, of course, the service is stopped occasionally by reboots.

I want to modify/add an .xml/cfg file to append all the messages that are in boincmgr messages to a text file when the service is stopped.

I have searched the net for help and tried "boinclogger" but have never got it to work.

I have no idea how to do this (but am not 'frightened' to try) or if it is possible so would very much appreciate any help offered.

Many thanks
David

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If you mean the messages in the Messages tab, they are logged already to stderrdae.txt, stdoutdae.txt (and stderrgui.txt/stdoutgui.txt if you use 5.8.x).

When the logs reach a maximum of, I think, 2MB, they are added to the *.old files.

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Was that not already in 5.4.9?

Not sure. I thought it started recording the GUI in a 5.5.x version, but I could be mistaken. It's been such a long time ago I ran a 5.4.x version that the mind tends to forget. ;)

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If you mean the messages in .... stderrdae.txt, stdoutdae.txt(and stderrgui.txt/stdoutgui.txt ...

[quote]When the logs reach a maximum of, I think, 2MB, they are added to the *.old files.

Yes, they are but I was trying to find a method of adding them to a different notepad file, larger in size (notepad has more than a 2MB limit).

Where are the *.old files, please?? I have never seen them.

if you use 5.8.x).

I have 5.4.11 - I can't find 5.8x - where is it please?

Many thanks,
David

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Where are the *.old files, please?? I have never seen them.

If you never cleaned out your BOINC directory, they'll be in that same BOINC directory. stderrdae.old, stdoutdae.old etc.

As for 5.8.x, you can download it from the normal download site (if you choose see all versions), but I wouldn't for now. It's in alpha test and it could give you more problems than it's worth. Wait until 5.8.x is released, then upgrade to it.

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If you never cleaned out your BOINC directory, they'll be in that same BOINC directory. stderrdae.old, stdoutdae.old etc.

Thanks - I have never seen them there but I guess they will appear when the conditions are met.

As for 5.8.x, you can download it from the normal download site (if you choose see all versions), but I wouldn't for now. It's in alpha test and it could give you more problems than it's worth. Wait until 5.8.x is released, then upgrade to it.

Thanks - I'll wait. ...

Many thanks for your help
David

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When stdoutdae.txt reaches a certain size, it is renamed to stdoutdae.old and a previous stdoutdae.old is deleted. New output goes to a newly created stdoutdae.txt. With Boinc running continuously, it takes more than a month before stdoutdae.txt reaches its maximum size. Stderrdae.txt and stderrgui.txt behave the same, and grow even slower. So all your routine needs to do is check if an .old file exists, append its contents to a text file and delete it.

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Thanks Alex.

David

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