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0005255GNUnetGeneralpublic2020-08-22 11:56
ReporterFlorian Dold Assigned ToFlorian Dold  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityhave not tried
Status confirmedResolutionopen 
Summary0005255: sort out logging
DescriptionCurrently the GNUnet-based services (exchange and merchant backend) have their own logging file, while everything else goes into the arm log.

All components should log properly into their own files.

This *might* require changes to ARM. For non-GNUnet-based services, logs are typically written to stdout, and ARM must write these logs to the correct file (and handle rotation etc. just like for GNUnet services). Maybe ARM does not handle this correctly at the moment.
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Christian Grothoff

2018-01-18 09:41

manager   ~0012795

Eh, you mean they log to 'stderr', not 'stdout'. Also, ARM does not handle rotation, and I don't think it should. I could see adding an option to ARM to map stderr to some process-specific log file, that would make sense.

Florian Dold

2018-01-18 11:12

developer   ~0012797

Oops yes, of course stderr.

The goal is that all services (frontends, uwsgi, etc.) output things in the same format as GNUnet-based services: each in their own file with a date pattern.

Maybe the easiest way is to write some "log wrapper" shell script that captures stderr and writes it to a file that is rotated (the same way that GNUNET_log does log rotation, based on the pattern in the log file name), and then wrap all these components in the ARM service definition?

This avoids changes to ARM.

Christian Grothoff

2018-01-18 11:15

manager   ~0012798

That might be neat in general. If we do it in C instead of as a shell script, we might even drop that functionality from GNUNET_log and _always_ use the wrapper. (Shell scripts are bad for that, for both performance and portability reasons.)

Florian Dold

2018-01-18 11:50

developer   ~0012799

Agreed to writing it in C if we also use it in GNUnet. I just wanted a quick solution to make the taler.net logs less ugly!

So this would mean that existing GNUnet binaries lose their -l option, and we'd have some utility (let's call it gnunet-log? gnunet-log-write?) that takes -l and respects GNUNET_FORCE_LOGFILE?

So services would be invoked by ARM like

  gnunet-log-write $LOGWRITE_OPTIONS $PREFIX gnunet-service-consensus $OPTIONS ...

where $LOGWRITE_OPTIONS is a new ARM config value, since we can't use OPTIONS to control the log file location anymore (we could change PREFIX but maybe that's a bit ugly).

Another alternative would be that not gnunet-log-write starts the actual process, but that gnunet-log-write reads from stdin, and ARM just writes the stderr of the service to stdin of gnunet-log-write (but then it kinda has to manage two processes ...)

But not matter if we actually do it in GNUnet, I guess we agree that this wrapper is the easiest solution for logging properly in Taler(-frontends).

Christian Grothoff

2018-01-18 12:00

manager   ~0012800

I think we shouldn't do this for 0.5, maybe 0.7, and do it right.

Florian Dold

2018-01-18 15:52

developer   ~0012801

Well I've already written and integrated taler-log-adapter [1], which is a rather simple python script that writes logs in their proper location.

Once this log adapter is implemented in GNUnet, we can just switch to it, but now we finally have separate logs for the bank and various merchant frontends.

[1] https://git.taler.net/deployment.git/tree/bin/taler-log-adapter

Florian Dold

2018-01-18 15:53

developer   ~0012802

Leaving this open until the log adapter is available in GNUnet ...

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2018-01-16 16:54 Florian Dold New Issue
2018-01-18 09:41 Christian Grothoff Note Added: 0012795
2018-01-18 09:41 Christian Grothoff Severity minor => feature
2018-01-18 09:41 Christian Grothoff Status new => confirmed
2018-01-18 09:41 Christian Grothoff Product Version => git (master)
2018-01-18 11:12 Florian Dold Note Added: 0012797
2018-01-18 11:12 Florian Dold Assigned To => Florian Dold
2018-01-18 11:12 Florian Dold Status confirmed => feedback
2018-01-18 11:12 Florian Dold Target Version => 0.5
2018-01-18 11:15 Christian Grothoff Note Added: 0012798
2018-01-18 11:50 Florian Dold Note Added: 0012799
2018-01-18 12:00 Christian Grothoff Note Added: 0012800
2018-01-18 12:00 Christian Grothoff Target Version 0.5 => 0.7.1
2018-01-18 15:52 Florian Dold Note Added: 0012801
2018-01-18 15:53 Florian Dold Status feedback => confirmed
2018-01-18 15:53 Florian Dold Note Added: 0012802
2020-03-29 22:04 Christian Grothoff Target Version 0.7.1 => 0.8.1
2020-08-22 11:56 Christian Grothoff Project Taler => GNUnet
2020-08-22 11:56 Christian Grothoff Category deployment and operations => General