[ggo-discussion] Logfiles

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:40:43PM -0500, William L. Brown wrote:

> I couldn't find a ggo.log, nor anything with $HOME/ or hs-pid in it, 
> so I can't mail you the error log.

It's .ggo.log. Note the first dot. On Unix-ish systems these are hidden
files, you won't see them in Finder or with "ls". Try in a terminal with
"ls -a", the -a option will show all files, including hidden ones.
As I wrote previously, $HOME/.ggo.log always exists once you have run gGo
once. It writes a couple of things there, including errors if they occur.

You will also see two other gGo files: .ggorc and .ggo.log.bak
.ggorc is where the configuration is saved (no bad idea to make a backup of
this file now and then), and .ggo.log.bak is a backup of the previous
session log (sometimes useful because each new session will overwrite
.ggo.log but copies the old one to .bak first).

I'm not exactly sure where $HOME is on OS X. On Linux it is /home/peter for
example. Guess it's somewhat similar on OS X.

The hs-pid-XXXX file only exists if Java crashed hard. If it does not exist,
it is a good sign. :*) This hs-pid-XXXX file is not hidden, so you should
see it in Finder if it exists.

 Peter

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