Log redirector and filter

[Pako]

New version LogRedirector released.
Requires EventGhost r1610 or later.

Pako

[Livin]

Pako,
Does the new version fix the conflict Log Redirector was having with the Application Control plugin?

[Pako]

I hope so.
But I did not try.

Pako

[Livin]

Pako
Any plans to have a setting to truncate the log file and/or have setting to write one log file per day?

[techoguy]

Hi Pako,
Great plugin!

I was curious what the "file commit interval" is and how it should be set or how changing the time affects the log files.

Thanks!

[Pako]

I was curious what the "file commit interval" is and how it should be set or how changing the time affects the log files.

Each line of the log is not written individually.
This means that the lines are within a certain time stored only in memory.
So if you set a short time, it means that the system (and disk) will be subjected to unnecessarily frequent writing.
When you set a long time, it may be that you will lose a larger amount of data (when there is an accident just before writing).
I hope this is comprehensible.
Sorry for my "English".

Pako

[piert]

Hi Pako,

It is time for me to start using the log redirector plugin, as there are now too many events scrolling too fast

I can load the plugin fine. The log is created and I can read it in Firefox (the file gets updated too, as I can scroll down to see extra information every 60 seconds).
If I close the text file and close the browser and then try to save my Eventghost configuration before closing Eventghost, I get the following error:

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09:53:39   Error while saving file
09:53:39   Traceback (most recent call last) (1640):
09:53:39     File "C:\Program Files\EventGhost\eg\Classes\Document.py", line 189, in WriteFile
09:53:39       os.rename(tmpPath, filePath)
09:53:39   WindowsError: [Error 183] Kan geen bestand maken dat al bestaat 

The last windows Error is in Dutch and it means: "Can not create a file that already exists"

I am using Eventghost 0.4.1 r 1640
Do you know how I could resolve the issue?

[Pako]

I have to admit that I do not know what it means.
I never encountered with it.
What is the name (and where it is located) file that you are saving by using the Log redirector?

BTW: Why are you using firefox to view the file?
This is a normal plane text. This you can do by using (for example) notepad.exe.

Pako

[piert]

Never mind, it turned out that running Eventghost as administrator resolved the issue (which was also the cause of another issue I had when suddenly all of my timers started failing to run).

BTW: Why are you using firefox to view the file?

This allows to have an automatic 'reload' of the view inside the tab in Firefox, which means that I can scroll down to see the most recently added logs every 30 seconds in the same view within Firefox (I have an auto reload addon in Firefox that reloads the tab every 10 seconds and your plugin is set to update the log every 30 seconds).
I don't think an automatic 'reload of content' would be possible when viewing the file inside notepad?

[Pako]

This allows to have an automatic 'reload' of the view inside the tab in Firefox, which means that I can scroll down to see the most recently added logs every 30 seconds in the same view within Firefox (I have an auto reload addon in Firefox that reloads the tab every 10 seconds and your plugin is set to update the log every 30 seconds).
I don't think an automatic 'reload of content' would be possible when viewing the file inside notepad?

I understand.
However - you may want to try something else ?
It's a single file, no need to install, just run ...

Pako

[piert]

Thanks Pako, I will be trying that alternative out.

[weekendowel]

For anyone who is interested I created a simple program to view the logfile. I am using Eventghost as a service and I wanted some way to view the log as I could when using Evenghost as a desktop application. It automatically gets new log event when Log redirector writes to the logfile (I use 5 seconds in the settings for File commit), and there is a setting for maximum amounts of lines and also how many hours it will initially display. And also it locks new events from displaying when you have your mouse hovering over the logarea.

Program can be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/holpx4e3yaxof ... g.exe?dl=0

[Pako]

There is a new version of the plugin.
New features:

• event filtering can be used even for native EventGhost log
• added identifiers INFO, NOTICE and ERROR
• filter string can contain curly brace wildcards {*} and {?}

My big thanks belong to krambriw for beta-testing, valuable comments and proofreading.
Because of the new features, I've changed the name of the plugin.

Pako

[Mastiff]

Seems to work very nicely, thanks! I love the drag and drop functionality!

[Mastiff]

Oops, spoke a bit too soon it seems. I had two wildcard events with ? defined, and suddenly saw that I needed to change them to {?}. On apply it locked up EG. It's not reproduceable, though. Maybe it was because something else was going on at the exact same time? The entry I edited was this:

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Tellstick.In|NexaL.Address|4610855|NexaL.Button|?|NexaL.Command|0|Value||

Which I changed into this:

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Tellstick.In|NexaL.Address|4610855|NexaL.Button|{?}|NexaL.Command|0|Value||

It seems to work nicely now, though. I just thought you should know in case it happens again.