Log Files

[Asrun]

I'm thinking about working on my own parser in the vein of FFXIP. Does anyone know how the log files are rotated? Is it based on elapsed time or size? It really isn't readily apparent from the source, but then again I've only looked at it for ten minutes.

[Tajin]

I don't think is file size, since each of them have different ones, rather by number of lines displayed. I'm just guessing though.

[aurik]

FFXI client buffers a bunch of lines. When that number reaches 50 (i think?), it writes a new log file and then ensures that there are less than 20 (i think?) files in the log dir by deleting the oldest one.

For my parser I just run a simple script that checks the directory every few seconds and mirrors new log entries to a second directory. Then the parser works off of the log files in the second directory.