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I'm running ROM 2.4b4, and currently using the stock startup file, aside from a change of port.

I'm looking to name my logfiles based on the date they're started.. something like..

grun_8-21-06_00.log For the first logfile today.

For reference, this is thecurrent logfile naming section

while ( 1 )
set index = 1000
while ( 1 )
set logfile = ../log/$index.log
if ( ! -e $logfile ) break
@ index++
end

while ( 1 )
    set index = 0
    set date = `date +%y-%m-%d`
    while ( 1 )
	set logfile = "grun_${date}_${index}.log"
	if ( ! -e $logfile ) break
	@ index++
    end

(Comment added by Tyche on Mon Aug 21 23:20:15 2006)

Note those are not single quotes around `date +%y-%m-%d`, they are backquote characters.

This might not be the best way to do it, but most of it was done before I got ahold of the code, and what I did might be bass ackward, but that's just how I roll.

our log_string was already just tossing strings to append_file with the logfiles name. So all I did was put in a little extra to bring in the current date and send the new filename to append_file.

So log_string gathers up the date with sprintf(buf,"%s%s",LOG_FILE,printdate());
And send it to append_file (for example today, it's ../log/logfile8-22-06)

The nice thing with this though is that it leaves a nice and neat log file for each day.