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jpratt
Joined:: 2007-10-31
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Limit log file size, command line, XP

2007-10-31 17:08

Trying to figure out a way I can limit the size of the log file on a Windows XP machine running WinSCP through command line.

Command line looks similar to this

"C:\Program Files\WinSCP3\WinSCP.exe"  /log=logfile.txt /command "open user:pass@server.com" "get *.* c:\folder\" "exit"

Thanks for your help.

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martin◆ Site Admin
Joined:: 2002-12-10
Posts:: 41,440
Location:: Prague, Czechia

Re: limit log file size, command line, xp

2007-11-01

What that would be good for?

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jpratt

2007-11-01 13:18

It would be good because the log file is 6MB after one transfer, I am doing one transfer per day, and I would like to limit the size it can grow to.
I don't want to go in every week/month and delete the file.

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martin◆ Site Admin

2007-11-04

So you want WinSCP to delete beginning of the log in case a total size exceed certain limit?

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jpratt

2007-11-05 14:23

Not delete but limit the size it can grow to, so as it appends to the file it would remove older entries needed to keep the file size at or below the predetermined setting.

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martin◆ Site Admin
Joined:: 2002-12-10
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Location:: Prague, Czechia

2007-11-06

That's what I've meant :-)

Added to tracker:
Issue 18 – Session log file rotation

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jpratt

2007-11-06 14:12

thank you

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Srknt Guest

Re: limit log file size, command line, xp

2011-02-09 15:31

Hi there,
Do you have solution for the above?
How to control log verbosity from command line? I don't want to use ini file with other 1000 options.
When I am using ini and have just logging section saved to it, it works fine but after script is run, it write all other options to ini file. That is the reason I dont want to use ini.

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: limit log file size, command line, xp

2011-02-11

Srknt wrote:

When I am using ini and have just logging section saved to it, it works fine but after script is run, it write all other options to ini file. That is the reason I dont want to use ini.

You can set the INI file read-only.

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Cawas Guest

limit log file size

2013-05-21 00:12

Tracker issue contain no news, seems like this was never implemented.

Don't know what you're talking about INI files.

Couldn't find anything on docs (either on https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_pref_logging or https://winscp.net/eng/docs/logging for instance) on how to limit the file size.

And I doubt this can be properly done outside the app itself. Can it? Any pointers any one?

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Matthijs Guest

2013-12-10 17:06

Any progress on this?

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kfft Guest

limit log size

2014-05-17 12:30

I confirm it would be very useful 8)

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Matthijs Guest

Re: limit log size

2015-11-10 15:18

I can agree with this as well, or some option to rotate the logging.

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Guest

2015-12-17 12:33

Hi Guys,
Was there ever a solution to this? I would really like to purge/limit the log file on a nightly basis but can't see how.

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martin◆ Site Admin

2015-12-21

There was no improvement in this respect yet.

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Guest

2016-01-01 01:37

+1 I could really use this feature.

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martin◆ Site Admin

2016-01-04

I'm raising priority of this request.

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allmoney.ws
Joined:: 2016-04-02
Posts:: 1
Location:: St. Petersburg, Russia

2016-04-02 20:26

Very wait this feature! Thanks!

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ctrunk514 Guest

I second the need for limiting log size option

2016-06-23 16:45

I second the need for limiting log size option

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: I second the need for limiting log size option

2016-06-27

@ctrunk514: Can you describe your use case? How big does your log file (for a single session) get that you need to limit its size?

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ambam
Joined:: 2016-07-13
Posts:: 1
Location:: US

2016-07-13 19:26

I agree that this would be a nice feature.

Use Case:
Synchronizing directories on a production web server and offsite backup server nightly

After a single session, log file reach's 45MB

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vanhauto Guest

add max-size as parameter

2016-09-07 13:37

Is it not possible to use the following syntax?

WinSCP /log=logfile.txt /logsize=5MB /command "open user:pass@server.com" "get *.* c:\folder\" "exit"

If the filesize reaches 5MB, a new log-file (with datetime-suffix) will be created.

This way, we can use a daily transfer-script to transfer the old log-files to an archive.

+1 for higher priority

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Mari059 Guest

2017-01-12 10:19

Hi all,

I also need help to this.

My "logs" folder must not exceed 100mb. But I can't limit each log size file in it.

How can I do this, please ? I 'm little newbie on this work.

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