> On 30. Apr 2019, at 20:00, Christian Grothoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Signed PGP part > 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? > > 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). > > 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). > >> So either have gnunet-arm -s hang and on Ctrl-C it also implicity behaves >> like gnunet-arm -e >> OR > > Definitively not this one. If you want that, run gnunet-service-arm > directly. > >> 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?
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. > > >
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