Find a solution for acServer not producing server log files

[WraithStar]

Kunos had the genius idea to have Assetto Corsa not producing log files by itself, they went for the lazy way and bundled this batch file to launch the server executable with. This is the only way we can get server log files (on Windows).

@echo off
TITLE AC Server
echo Starting AC Server...
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
 for /f "skip=1 tokens=1-6 delims= " %%a in ('wmic path Win32_LocalTime Get Day^,Hour^,Minute^,Month^,Second^,Year /format:table') do (
        IF NOT "%%~f"=="" (
            set /a _d=10000 * %%f + 100 * %%d + %%a
            set /a _t=10000 * %%b + 100 * %%c + %%e
        )
    )

echo Output is logs/session/output%_d%_%_t%.log

acserver.exe > logs/session/output%_d%_%_t%.log 2> logs/error/error%_d%_%_t%.log

The problem is pretty evident: with acServer not producing log files by itself, we have to tell Server Manager to write these files in some way, if we want them

[Hecrer]

Options are:

• Just run the .bat file when launching the server (does it close properly? Needs testing)
• Write something that writes the logs to a file in server manager as well as writing to the web interface

[WraithStar]

Workaround (thanks @cj123 for the idea) - tested and working on both Windows and Linux Basically, the idea is to redirect AC's standard output directly to a logfile....as Kunos (lazily) intended

NOTE: this will stop showing the log in the manager's Server Log page, but at least we will have the outputs printed on logfiles.

• for Linux: have the acmanager run this sh script instead of acServer binary

#!/bin/bash
LOGFILE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S.log"`
./acserver >$LOGFILE

• for Windows: have the acmanager run this bat file instead of acServer binary

@echo off
TITLE AC Server
echo Starting AC Server...
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
 for /f "skip=1 tokens=1-6 delims= " %%a in ('wmic path Win32_LocalTime Get Day^,Hour^,Minute^,Month^,Second^,Year /format:table') do (
        IF NOT "%%~f"=="" (
            set /a _d=10000 * %%f + 100 * %%d + %%a
            set /a _t=10000 * %%b + 100 * %%c + %%e
        )
    )

echo Output is logs/%_d%_%_t%_server01.log

acServer.exe > logs/%_d%_%_t%_session_server01.log 2> logs/%_d%_%_t%_error_server01.log

[cj123]

Closing this ticket via the new wiki entry on ACServer Logging to File. Thanks to @WraithStar for the testing here :)