[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#977) Extended connect dialog

["Daniel L Speyer" <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

design-board@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:37:38AM -0700, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
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>>Christian Knoke wrote:
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>>>There is still the - more general - problem with crashes: stale civservers,
>>>no logs if the server crashes.
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>>True, only a server-side solution can address that (-quitidle or 
>>similar).  I considered that, but I found that if the client crashed, it 
>>was nice to be able to reconnect to the server and pick up my game.  
>>Admittedly, this is helpful for those who know how to do that, and 
>>clutters those who don't, but ti doesn't happen often, and stale 
>>civservers aren't dangerous.
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>Ok, but when CVS is concerned, this will happen rather often. So there
>should be a way to give the civserver the --log option.
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It already sends its stdour/err to .civserverlog<port#> at debug level 
3.  Does --log get even more information?  If so, then we may as well 
use it (though it would be nice for everything to go to one place.

--Daniel

>Christian
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