[Feature Request] time and date based logging system

[OzzyHelix]

[Feature Request] time and date based logging system

[OzzyHelix]

wonderful this issue is resolved

[BabyBoySnow]

The dev branch has lots of exciting changes ;)

[OzzyHelix]

this is good there is just one thing that I would request the filename of the log files contain dates and time and a routine to clean up older log files I could add that to this issue or open a new issue might open a new issue?

[OzzyHelix]

I will make a new request for this

[itsTheFae]

Currently the file name is taken from the default log file names. There are a few command line arguments you can use to enable the log rotation, and set a custom date-format for the date/time used in the file name.
These options are only available via command line flags, but they should be added to config at some point too. For now you can see them by using python run.py --help since they are currently only documented on the PR that merged them.

I should mention that log file rotation is only done at shutdown, so if you start the bot without the flags it will not rotate the log and the next run will overwrite it.

This probably wont be a perfect solution, as managing logs is usually better done with a dedicated tool, like logrotate for linux or something similar in windows land.

[OzzyHelix]

my biggest issue was the log overwriting itself again and again so I thought a system where the log files had the date in them and then there was a clean up routine would be a good route perhaps I am wrong

[OzzyHelix]

I didn't know about python run.py --logs-kept 100