Clear log files

[allysonsouza]

There's a option to clear the entire log file, or i need to create a batch to do that? (pointed here, in this issue: #29)

If I still need to create my own program to do that, someone can help me how to do this?

[steinhaug]

Are you looking for a trigger in the logfile to clear/flush the file or how do you mean?

[allysonsouza]

Yes @steinhaug, exactly it, a action to clear the log file, I miss this button in SnakeTail

[snakefoot]

You can configure an external tool in SnakeTail that performs a delete operation of the monitored file.

[steinhaug]

I'm on windows and after I started using external tools I notice that when you launch the program it runs through the logfile triggering all my alarms which is intended for debugging while working... so I solved this one by creating a .cmd file

snaketail-clean-start.cmd

@echo off
echo "" > D:\path\to\snaketail.log 
start "" "C:\Program Files\SnakeTail\SnakeTail.exe" D:\path\to\snaketail-session.xml
exit

Then I added a windows shortcut to the cmd file "snaketail-clean-start.cmd" and voila. Hope this helps

[allysonsouza]

Just if someone comes here searching for that too, here's my batch script to clear the current open file:

echo off

set filepath=%1
set filename=%2

break > %filepath%\%filename%