Can PuTTY create new folders for log files?

[Francisco David del Campo Hill]

Dear All,

First time posting here, so apologies if the format of the question is unusual...

I am using PuTTY 0.74 (Windows x64 installer), and would like it to record the output of my SSH sessions. I know how to set up the session logging settings to save the output to a file in an existing folder; for example:

Log file name: C:\Users\me\Desktop\putty-&H-&Y&M&D-&T.log

But I would also like to automatically classify these log files into folders by date, so I tried:

Log file name: C:\Users\me\Desktop\PuTTY-&Y&M&D\putty-&H-&Y&M&D-&T.log

Sadly this gave an error when I opened the SSH session:

Error writing session log (ASCII mode) to file: C:\Users\me\Desktop\PuTTY-20210210\putty-a.b.c.d-20210210-112314.log

It seems that PuTTY was not able to create the folder (...\PuTTY-20210210\...) before creating the log file (...\putty-a.b.c.d-20210210-112314.log). I have already tried to open PuTTY as administrator with the same result, so I doubt this is a permissions problem.

Does anyone know how to make this work? Is this simply not possible with current PuTTY and should be asked as a feature request?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Yours,

David

[Kaz Kylheku]

On 2021-02-10, Francisco David del Campo Hill <frd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to make this work? Is this simply not possible
> with current PuTTY and should be asked as a feature request?

It sounds like the directory is required to exist: all path components
up to the file name. I'd just live with that. You already have the
date interpolated into the name, so send the files to a common folder.

You can have some script that runs every midnight and moves files
into dated folders.