Yes, although not directly with the mytsoft executable or by specifying a location directly. The approach is to use a symbolic link in the Linux file system to locate the actual log file in a different directory. As a quick background, the log file must be named mytsoft.log, and it is used as a flag to indicate the executable should log certain events. This must exist in the same folder as the executable. However, on some systems there may be a preferred log file location, or there could be other security issues that preclude using the executable location. So the solution is to use the ability in the Linux file system to create a symbolic link to the actual file.
Let's say you have a log location like:
/var/log/ourfiles/logs
First make sure no current mytsoft.log exists in the mytsoft folder (i.e. where the executable is).
Then do the following to match your speciifc situation:
cd /var/log/ourfiles/logs[Enter] (Change to log location)
touch mytsoft.log[Enter] (create empty file in log location)
cd /location/where/mytsoft/is/[Enter] (Change to where mytsoft is)
ln -s /var/log/ourfiles/logs/mytsoft.log mytsoft.log[Enter] (create symbolic link)
Run the mytsoft executable. The actual logged entries will be in the mytsoft.log in the /var/log location
Of course, permissions and all that needs to be configured so there is appropriate write access available to the user/process. Important to test and verify the proper functioning of this approach.
This works because the flag to enable logging is just the existence of the mytsoft.log file, and with the symbolic link, the mytsoft executable sees the symbolic link file as the flag, while the actual "file" is the one in the log location. The end result is the log data is placed in an external file in a different location (as specified).
| Category: Using | Type: Question/Answer | Product: My-T-Soft | Version: 2.20 |
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