Console.log is overwritten when client is restarted

[emilvelichkov]

If the client is started with --log-commands it creates console.log in the root of the data-dir. Every time the client is started the old log is overwritten. There should be a mechanism to preserve the old logs.

[vikramrajkumar]

Changing this is low priority, but the current behaviour is because console.log may contain passwords and private keys.

[emilvelichkov]

Console logging is disabled by default due to sensitive info. Users need to use --log-commands to enable console logging. However console.log behavior is different than the rest of the logs. In my opinion overwriting previous log is not the best option.

[dnotestein]

I agree with emil on this one.