Re: Do Netsurf's errors get logged? (Syslog, Wimplog)

In article <cd18f7f154.jim@abbeypress.net>,
Jim Nagel <netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:

> Warning from Netsurf
> The file could not be saved due to an error:
> 'ADFS::Drive2.$.2310d/zip' is a directory

This is a common error and nothing to do with Netsurf as such. It is
due to some oddity with SparkFS and handling of zip files, and seems
to depend on how the original zip was produced (software). I get it
from Filer_Action when running SyncDisc jobs.

> (1) The wording of the warning seems inappropriate. A "directory"?

SparkFS etc treats zip files as image files, so zips can appear as a
directory containing files.

> (2) The text of the warning was not recorded by !Syslog (whose job
> is to make it easy for people submitting bug reports to quote the
> exact wording of an error message). I searched the whole log and
> found nothing from Netsurf.

Netsurf uses its own logging and does not send anything to Syslog.

> *help wimplog says: "The Wimplog module logs errors sent to
> Wimp_ReportError (ie, shown as error boxes on the screen) to a file
> using !Syslog."

Wimplog intercepts the standard Wimp_ReportError wimp error messages.
If Netsurf uses its own internal error reporting, then Wimplog will
not see it.



> (I'm using Netsurf #2789 on Iyonix 5.18, Syslog 0.20, Wimplog 1.02)

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Chris Johnson