Auto-Log on Connect

Posted by Snowglass on Sun 09 May 2010 12:35 AM — 10 posts, 33,365 views.

USA #0
I have searched and searched and tried to find an answer, and cannot, so I am asking now. I have recently returned to MU*client following the death of my laptop, and I am trying to set it back up on a borrowed desktop. The problem I am finding, is that in the global defaults preferences, there is no option to auto-log on connect, even though the help files says that option should be there. Is there a way to get this setup and working on MU*client? I have the latest version 4.51 downloaded from this site. Thank you so much!

Tracy
USA #1
Yes, go to File -> World Properties -> Connecting. You can put your username/password into the fields there, select an auto-connect mechanism, and add text that you want to be sent when you connect.
USA #2
My apologies, I should have been more specific, though I thank you for the reply. I want to start the world logging output to a log file on connect, and this option is supposed to be in global preferences, or in the logging option for each world, but it seems to have been removed.
USA #3
Ah! All you need to do is go to the "Logging" tab in World Properties, and tell it where to log in the "Automatically log to this file" field.
USA #4
Thank you! Is there a way to set it up so that you can get a new log every time you login? I'm sorry, I'm just so out of my depth right now, and frustrated over dead laptop.
USA #5
Heheh, it's fine. I don't believe you can create a new file for every session, but you can easily set it up to log to a new file every day. Click the "Help" button on the Logging dialog for a full list of date characters. Here's an example:

"mylog-%Y-%m-%d.log"

Use that (or something like it) in your logging path and you'll get a new log file every day. For today's date (for my timezone at least), this would produce "mylog-2010-05-08.log".
Amended on Sun 09 May 2010 02:17 AM by Twisol
USA #6
I went in and used your example for my file to log to. And while I don't get an error message, and the program does show that I am logging, it is not producing a log file in the logs folder, which is where the default is set to.

Okay, I found them. It is logging, BUT, it is logging to the main MUClient folder and not into the logs folder, even though I have that set as the default.
Amended on Sun 09 May 2010 02:26 AM by Snowglass
USA #7
You might want to try having a full (absolute) path for the logging, rather than just a filename. Like from C:\ all the way to logs\mylogs-timestamp.log. You can use the Browse button to do that easily, then just tack the filename you want at the end afterwards.
USA #8
OMG OMG OMG, you my good man are an absolute genius! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

Your solution worked perfectly, AND using your absolute paths, I was able to have it log each world to it's own folder.
Amended on Sun 09 May 2010 02:39 AM by Snowglass
USA #9
Haha! I'm glad I could help. ^_^