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Re: Putty 0.81 logging appears broken

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On 03/05/2024 10:24, Simon Tatham wrote:
> Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> With Putty 0.81 no Windows 11, when I select to log to a file, then
>> open the session, no log file is created.
> 
> What do you see in the terminal window, or the PuTTY Event Log?
> 
> If I tell PuTTY to log to a file in a directory it _can't_ access, then
> in the terminal window I see a message such as
> 
> Error writing session log (raw mode) to file: z:\putty.log
> 
> and the same error message appears at the bottom of the Event Log.
> 
> On the other hand, when you _do_ successfully enable logging, nothing
> appears in the terminal window, but the Event Log contains a message
> indicating successful opening of the log file:
> 
> 2024-05-03 10:22:47 Writing new session log (raw mode) to file: z:\putty.log
> 
> So, which of those do you see? That will tell us whether PuTTY _knows_
> it failed to write the file, or whether the Windows API claimed
> everything worked fine.

Initially I got no message, then changing what I logged from SSH packets 
and raw data to just SSH packets it then reported Error writing session log.
I then created a file (to be overwritten) and checked the security on 
it, and the whole tree. Same result.

I have just tried again, but using My Windows Documents folder. It 
created the file, and logged fine. SO in future I will do this

I was initially using a .ssh directory in c:\Users\Chris\ which has 
always worked for me before.

Strange.

Thanks for the reply

-- 
Chris

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Putty 0.81 logging appears broken Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2024-05-02 17:32 +0100
  Re: Putty 0.81 logging appears broken Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> - 2024-05-03 10:24 +0100
    Re: Putty 0.81 logging appears broken Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2024-05-03 10:50 +0100

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