Re: [GNUnet-developers] gnunet-arm behaviour

[Schanzenbach, Martin]

> On 30. Apr 2019, at 20:26, Schanzenbach, Martin <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 30. Apr 2019, at 20:00, Christian Grothoff <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 4/30/19 2:08 PM, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> everytime I show somebody how to start gnunet, the behaviour of gnunet-arm 
>>> seems to be a major pain point because it exhibits two behaviours which, 
>>> combined, are quite odd.
>>> Those two are:
>>> 
>>> 1. gnunet-arm -s does not hang but return the user to the terminal
>>> 2. Logging by default is in that same terminal
>>> 
>>> (2) basically defeats all advantages (1) would give the user.
>>> Can we either change (1) or (2) in order to make it more consistent with 
>>> other tools?
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>> I'd be happy to see (2) change, but somehow I thought that in the
>> systemd age logging to stderr was the 'consistent' thing to do (having
>> systemd then manage logging).
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>> Anyway, maybe we should log to stderr as any gnunet-service (and expect
>> systemd to launch gnunet via gnunet-service-arm instead of gnunet-arm!)
>> and have the command-line tool gnunet-arm redirect logging to a file.
>> I think that would indeed make the most sense (but I'm not sure if that
>> is "consistent with other tools", given that you left "other" rather
>> wide open).
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>>> So either have gnunet-arm -s hang and on Ctrl-C it also implicity behaves 
>>> like gnunet-arm -e
>>> OR
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>> Definitively not this one. If you want that, run gnunet-service-arm
>> directly.
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>>> By default, log into a file, maybe even have a gnunet-log or gnuent-arm 
>>> --logs in the future.
>> 
>> Eh, you are aware of the "-l FILE" option of gnunet-arm? I wouldn't mind
>> having a configuration setting that by default logs to some log file,
>> see arm.conf:18 for an example. Maybe we should have a separate option
>> just for gnunet-arm, so it works _only_ for gnunet-arm and without
>> requiring the user to pass -l explicitly every time?
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> Doesn't that only affect gnunet-arm's logs? But my issue was more with sane 
> defaults. I already through that there might be a switch for this, but the 
> default should be silent I think. At least for gnunet-arm.

Nope, actually "-l" does exactly what I want. But a user does not really want 
to specify a log file all the time. Maybe log in ~/.local/share/gnunet by 
default?

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