lcm-logger1

Usage

Overview

LCM message logging utility. Subscribes to all channels on an LCM network, and records all messages received to FILE. If FILE is not specified, then a filename is automatically chosen.

Options

The following options are provided by lcm-logger

-c, --channel=CHAN

Channel string to pass to lcm_subscribe. (default: ".*")

--flush-interval=MS

Flush the log file to disk every MS milliseconds. (default: 100)

-f, --force

Overwrite existing files. The default behavior is to fail if the output file already exists.

-h, --help

Shows some help text and exits

-i, --increment

Automatically append a suffix to FILE such that the resulting filename does not already exist. This option precludes -f and --rotate.

-l, --lcm-url=URL

Log messages on the specified LCM URL

-m, --max-unwritten-mb=SIZE

Maximum size of received but unwritten messages to store in memory before dropping messages. (default: 100 MB)

--rotate=NUM

When creating a new log file, rename existing files out of the way and always write to FILE.0. If FILE.0 already exists, it is renamed to FILE.1. If FILE.1 exists, it is renamed to FILE.2, etc. If FILE.NUM exists, then it is deleted. This option precludes -i.

--split-mb=N

Automatically start writing to a new log file once the log file exceeds N MB in size (can be fractional). This option requires -i or --rotate.

-q, --quiet

Suppress normal output and only report errors.

-s, --strftime

Format FILE with strftime.

-v, --invert-channels

Invert channels. Log evertyhing that CHAN does not match.

Rotating and splitting

For long-term logging, lcm-logger can rotate through a fixed number of log files, moving to a new log file as existing files reach a maximum size. To do this, use --rotate and --split-mb. For example:

# Rotate through logfile.0, logfile.1, ... logfile.4
lcm-logger --rotate=5 --split-mb=2 logfile

Moving to a new file happens either when the current log file size exceeds the limit specified by --split-mb, or when lcm-logger receives a SIGHUP.

Signals

On platforms defining SIGHUP, lcm-logger will react to HUP by closing the active log file and opening a new one.