Try using -F to specify a full path for the output file.

-Dan

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Ivan Dryanovski
<ivan.dryanovski@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can rosbag be invoked from a .launch file? I tried the following:
>
> <launch>
>  <node pkg="rosbag" type="record" name="record" output="screen" args="-a"/>
> </launch>
>
> It gives me the same console output as when i run "rosbag record -a".
> This is the output after runnling the launch file:
>
>
> ... logging to
> /home/idryanov/.ros/log/24cb0a36-aa35-11df-82d4-00156d841fe0/roslaunch-idryanov-desktop-13809.log
> Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
> Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
> Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.
>
> started roslaunch server http://192.168.1.145:48967/
>
> SUMMARY
> ========
>
> NODES
>  /
>    record (rosbag/record)
>
> ROS_MASTER_URI=http://192.168.1.33:11311
>
> core service [/rosout] found
> process[record-1]: started with pid [13818]
> [ INFO] [1282073779.153551281]: Recording to 2010-08-17-15-36-19.bag.
> [ INFO] [1282073780.179935257]: Subscribing to /splitter/rvs
> [ INFO] [1282073780.204881536]: Subscribing to
> /hokuyo_node/parameter_descriptions
> [ INFO] [1282073780.243645891]: Subscribing to /splitter/m3
> [ INFO] [1282073780.282756839]: Subscribing to /splitter/m1
> [ INFO] [1282073780.297498781]: Subscribing to /pose2D
> [ INFO] [1282073780.320485431]: Subscribing to
> /right_floor_altimeter/height
> [ INFO] [1282073780.351051293]: Subscribing to /rosout
> [ INFO] [1282073780.383265250]: Subscribing to /scan
> [ INFO] [1282073780.488726436]: Subscribing to /tf
> [ INFO] [1282073780.645444289]: Subscribing to /asctec_proc/imu
> [ INFO] [1282073780.755088806]: Subscribing to /rosout_agg
> [ INFO] [1282073780.899634911]: Subscribing to
> /hokuyo_node/parameter_updates
> [ INFO] [1282073780.961643402]: Subscribing to /diagnostics
> [ INFO] [1282073781.019327722]: Subscribing to /splitter/mvs
> [ INFO] [1282073781.086277163]: Subscribing to /autopilot/IMU_CALCDATA
> [ INFO] [1282073781.136651245]: Subscribing to /splitter/m2
> [ INFO] [1282073781.221266595]: Subscribing to /splitter/lvs
> ^C[record-1] killing on exit
> [ INFO] [1282073793.525910011]: Closing 2010-08-17-15-36-19.bag.
> shutting down processing monitor...
> ... shutting down processing monitor complete
> done
>
>
>
>
>
> However, at the end, there is no .bag file saved to the current directory.
>
> Ivan Dryanovski
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