Re: [Rails-devel] Log file query

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

Oh, I see. Phil's last mail clarifies it for me. 
One idea is to have different people run with different .properties files,
each specifying a different log file name.
You can set a personal .properties file on the command line by adding the
option
 
-Dconfigfile=Chris.properties or Phil.properties or whatever.
 
So give each player a separate .bat or .sh file to start Rails.
 
Erik.


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From: Erik Vos [mailto:eri...@xs...] 
Sent: Wednesday 20 January 2010 00:05
To: 'Development list for Rails: an 18xx game'
Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Log file query


Not sure what the problem is.
Are we talking about log files or save files?
You can set the log file location and name in your copy of my.properties:
log4j.appender.F.File=<path>
 
Erik.


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From: Chris Shaffer [mailto:chr...@gm...] 
Sent: Tuesday 19 January 2010 23:00
To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Log file query


Right, I understand that, but we are using Rails in the Dropbox directory
and sharing it.  We know it is a slight security risk but keeping the
software version synchronized trumped that.

So, the questions remain:

1) Is there any way to prevent Rails from saving the log file on exit if no
actions are taken;
2) What are the conflicted log files, and what purpose do they serve;
3) Are 1 and 2 the same question?

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Aliza Panitz <ali...@gm...>
wrote:


On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Chris Shaffer <chr...@gm...>
wrote:
> One of our players says:
>
>> It looks like the 18xx.log file mod. date is updated when you
>> close a .rails file even if you don't make any changes.  Is there
>> a way to review the game without forcing an update to the
>> log - other than copying the directory and opening that?


If you use a copy of Rails in one directory to open a savefile in
another directory, then the logfile is in the same directory as the
software, not the data.

For example, in my PBEM games the Dropbox shared file area has data
files only, and we each run our own copies of the Rails software (a
slightly more secure model, though a bit more error prone if players
need to keep track of which software version to use with which game.)

 - Aliza

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