Wine and games logs

[fabnay]

Hi,

i m using wine 1.5.10 (i have tested also v1.4-->1.5.8 ) on a dedicated server running on Debian Squeeze 64bits.
I start servers of games like brink, mw3 and Sev2.
Everything is working good. Servers are running and we can play multiplayer without trouble.
But the logs of games are always empty.

For example with SEv2 :
When the game start a file called "connection_log_PORT.txt" is created and writed (all is ok here) and a second called "dedicated_console.txt" is empty. Normally this second file should show all actions on server. It is not the case.

I started the programm with this option too "&> log.txt". But the file is created but it is empty.

I tried also to start the game with Wine under vnc4server. The game start and console show all events but they are not writen inside file called "dedicated_console.txt".

We tried on 2 dedicated servers with the same result.
The problem seems comin from Wine which do not write on these kind of files.

Someonelse get the "problem" and there is a solution to resolve it ?

Thanks by advance for your answers.

[DanKegel]

You could try running with WINEDEBUG=+file and see if perhaps the
file is being opened in a location you're not expecting...

If the problem persists, please file a bug report listing
exactly how to reproduce the problem, preferably with
a freely downloadable app.

[fabnay]

I have looked for everywhere yet to see if a file has not been created in other place, saddly with no success.

I have open a bug report

These games (which haven't linux binaries) are freely loadable via steam tool (HldsUpdateTool.exe) so everyone is free to check and test.

Thanks by advance.

[ischou]

Are you doing anything fancy with that dedicated server? For instance, is it dual-bootable with the filesystem hosting your binaries being a FAT32/vFAT/NTFS partition?

I've noticed that Wine sometimes has trouble writing to non-native file systems. The same program is unable to write files when on a FAT partition works perfectly fine when I copy that directory to a native partition.