How to see possible rules for SetRules in log module. #803

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2026-10-05T04:45:30+02:00

adam commented

2026-10-05 04:45:30 +02:00

Greetings, I've read documentation about log module (https://wiki.znc.in/Log) and also asked questions on #znc@chat.freenode.net without luck. I'd like to disable logging of the status changes, so I won't have all these "***Joins: user001 (IP@address.com)", "***Quits:" and nick changes. I want to have just the conversation written in my log. The wiki doesn't elaborate how to do it. /msg *log help SetRules doesn't list available options.

There is also this mentioned:

Set boolean (added in 1.7)
Set one of the following booleans: joins, quits, nickchanges.
For example, /msg *log Set quits false to exclude quit messages from the log.

Which makes me think than what I'm looking for isn't available yet?
My ZNC version is ZNC 1.6.5+deb1~bpo8+1 from jessie-backports.

Greetings, I've read documentation about log module (https://wiki.znc.in/Log) and also asked questions on #znc@chat.freenode.net without luck. I'd like to disable logging of the status changes, so I won't have all these "_***Joins: user001 (IP@address.com)_", "_***Quits:_" and nick changes. I want to have just the conversation written in my log. The wiki doesn't elaborate how to do it. __/msg *log help SetRules__ doesn't list available options. There is also this mentioned: > Set boolean (added in 1.7) > Set one of the following booleans: joins, quits, nickchanges. > For example, /msg *log Set quits false to exclude quit messages from the log. Which makes me think than what I'm looking for isn't available yet? My ZNC version is ZNC 1.6.5+deb1~bpo8+1 from jessie-backports.

adam closed this issue

2026-10-05 04:45:31 +02:00

adam commented

2026-10-05 04:45:32 +02:00

I think this is quite self-explanatory:

SetRules <rules>
    Filter chat rooms which should be logged (all by default).
    Use !#chan or !query to negate and * for wildcards

This is pretty self-explanatory - you indicate the rules by specifying what chat rooms you want to not log (or log). That is, if you are in #znc and don't want to log it, you would execute SetRules !#znc.

What you ultimately want is Set boolean - i.e. Set quits false or Set joins false or similar. The problem is, that's only available here in the git build currently - you'd have to compile the software yourself to make this work.

This is, however, not something I think we should include in the help output for the log module itself - that'd make the output a lot longer than would be 'sane', in my opinion.

I think this is quite self-explanatory: ``` SetRules <rules> Filter chat rooms which should be logged (all by default). Use !#chan or !query to negate and * for wildcards ``` This is pretty self-explanatory - you indicate the rules by specifying ***what chat rooms*** you want to not log (or log). That is, if you are in `#znc` and don't want to log it, you would execute `SetRules !#znc`. What you ultimately want is `Set boolean` - i.e. `Set quits false` or `Set joins false` or similar. The problem is, that's only available here in the git build currently - you'd have to compile the software yourself to make this work. This is, however, *not* something I think we should include in the `help` output for the log module itself - that'd make the output a lot longer than would be 'sane', in my opinion.

adam commented

2026-10-05 04:45:32 +02:00

Thank you @teward. I just thought SetRules can be used for more fine-grained customization than yes/no to rooms. But that's okay, it's good to know. Closing issue.

Thank you @teward. I just thought SetRules can be used for more fine-grained customization than yes/no to rooms. But that's okay, it's good to know. Closing issue.

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