Feature: event_log Directory Archving

[ScanCaster]

Based on my further testing this is NOT a bug! When I tested it initially after enabling, the ls command didn't do anything, after doing an lsattr, I see there are files in there. I was expecting a single log with the dump of the data, not small files.

Any way giving the ls command time to complete, the files are there, all 77,000+ of them. :) ;) At last count.

So with that in mind I would like to suggest that an option to TGZ the event log daily.

Thus at 0001 the next day the event log files are tar gzipped to event_log/archive/0716201.log.tgz

Thus the huge number of files in there is manageable. Yes I have a reason why I am logging this stuff. :)

Thanks.

---- Original version for archival purposes. ------
Using the latest download of sdrtrunk/JMBE, and working great for my test setup, a couple glitches:

On my main P25 system, I have events to be logged, but the ~/SDRTrunk/event_logs is not readable.

See:

rwxrwxr-x 7 sdtrunkuser sdtrunkuser 4096 Jul 6 22:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 sdtrunkuser sdtrunkuser 4096 Jul 9 23:57 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 sdtrunkuser sdtrunkuser 22736896 Jul 10 06:58 event_logs
drwxrwxr-x 2 sdtrunkuser sdtrunkuser 4096 Jul 10 00:21 logs
drwxrwxr-x 2 sdtrunkuser sdtrunkuser 4096 Jul 9 22:34 playlist
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sdtrunkuser sdtrunkuser 1282 Jul 9 00:15 SDRTrunk.properties
drwxrwxr-x 2 sdtrunkuser sdtrunkuser 4096 Jul 6 22:16 settings
drwxrwxr-x 2 sdtrunkuser sdtrunkuser 4096 Jul 10 06:58 streaming
sdtrunkuser@Z:~/SDRTrunk$ cd event_logs/

I can cd into that, but its not a directory, really, it just keeps getting bigger from being data stored from the system, but can't tail it or cat it as "cat: event_logs/: Is a directory"

*buntu 14.04 32b with:
$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_171"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_171-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 25.171-b11, mixed mode)