Log to file support

[gammamonbiscuit]

Hi, I wonder if it is possible to add log to file support? To tell the server to log to file you can launch it with -logfile [path to directory], unfortunately the file name is hardcoded to be timestamped. My current solution is having a background script that waits for the file, and tail it to another file with a constant name.

Here's an example that I made yesterday, no setting and such, just getting the log.
https://github.com/gammamonbiscuit/terraria-server-docker-with-logs

My goal is to get the log without relying on docker socket or changing the container's logging driver, and use it for chat forwarding. I think those who want to use fail2ban with terraria would like this feature too.

Thanks~

[Diyagi]

Using tee to capture stdout would be better in here, theres an example of it in my fork.

https://github.com/Diyagi/terraria-server-docker/blob/e18c67675779afcf9592487bb6ab197a4f2ece3d/scripts/launch.sh#L28

[gammamonbiscuit]

Interesting, named pipe is a thing that I have yet to learn, the ability to send commands in makes me think that it might be possible to create a dual-way chat bridge...

I also think it might be better to use the world's name as the log file's filename. So that the data from multiple servers can be managed in one host directory. I've already made this change in the toggle-and-filename branch of my mod, but I want to wait for hexlo's reply before merging it because the behaviour is different than what I've written in the original post.