By default, the dedicated server script logfile is set to the directory where the scripts are located - this doesn't usually work as on Linux/Unix-like systems, the default location of the scripts cannot be written by a normal user. This may cause confusion or temptation to run OLX as root/superuser which is not recommended. But how should this be fixed?
1) Change the default path (in dedicated_config.py) to something like "~/.OpenLieroX/dedicated_control.log". This is simple but it might be annoying for someone who uses different file paths in OLX config.
2) Change the IO script to search for a writable path by using getWriteFullFileName(...). This way it gets written to a path defined in OLX config. But should this be avoided in order to keep the messageLog() function as simple and robust as possible?
lxkurko
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7 years ago
By default, the dedicated server script logfile is set to the directory where the scripts are located - this doesn't usually work as on Linux/Unix-like systems, the default location of the scripts cannot be written by a normal user. This may cause confusion or temptation to run OLX as root/superuser which is not recommended. But how should this be fixed?
1) Change the default path (in dedicated_config.py) to something like "~/.OpenLieroX/dedicated_control.log". This is simple but it might be annoying for someone who uses different file paths in OLX config.
2) Change the IO script to search for a writable path by using getWriteFullFileName(...). This way it gets written to a path defined in OLX config. But should this be avoided in order to keep the messageLog() function as simple and robust as possible?