Terminal logging settings for client

Terminal logging settings for client

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Hi!

There's two places where you can enable logging for Terminal sessions (SSH ...): In RDM Settings/Types/Sessions/Terminal, and in the Session properties:


I'd like a way to enable logging for all Terminal sessions in RDM locally (for individual users), without configuring each session, which would affect all users.
There's a few problems:

  • The logging path is in settings, but the file name is in the session. I'd like to be able to set the file name in settings too. You can use variables to make each session create its own file, with the date, time, host etc. in the filename. So there's no need for every session to have an individual file name set.
  • Even if I configure each session with these settings, if a client doesn't have the global logging path set, there's an error and you can't even open the session. It should just be a warning at most, or simply be ignored.
  • With the log overwrite mode set to "Prompt", it always asks whether to overwrite, even if the file doesn't exist.


There could still be logging settings in each session, but I'd love that when it's set to "Global", all settings can be set globally, instead of the options always having to be set in the session. When logging is enabled in the session but not globally, there shouldn't be any error for users that don't have it enabled in RDM settings.

Thanks!
Daniel

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Hello Daniel,

Thank you for the request and for the description of what you're trying to achieve. We'll have to think on how best to implement this, as there could be a lot of improvements to the logging for the SSH entries as you mention.
As a note, the original goal for the "global" mode (if you go back nearly a decade ago) was to allow to configure logging when on different platforms (Windows, Mac), since they have different paths and path formats. Right now I feel like it's both confusing and underused as a possible mechanic, so we could benefit from a rework of those settings down the line.

Regards,

Hubert Mireault

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Thank you Hubert!