Re: [GNUnet-developers] gnunet-arm behaviour

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 01.05.19 um 10:35 schrieb Christian Grothoff:
> Are you aware that our logging subsystem can do log rotation (and that
> we would then only keep the logs for the last 3 days)?


IMO gnunet should not re-implement operating system tasks, for several
reasons:

- logging should be done using the platforms mechanisms to ease the
users' live

- the OS logging subsystem should be able to take care of rotation, disk
exhaustion, what ever,

- implementing all of log-subsystem features again is a huge effort,
waste of (wo)men-power and time


On 5/1/19 7:45 AM, IC Rainbow wrote:

> Maybe log in ~/.local/share/gnunet by default?

IMHO this is a bad place, as barely nobody would look for logs here,
esp. not in "share".

For Linux it might be worth having a look at how to manage services
under the user's control with a per-user systemd instance [2], including
proper logging.

Literature:

[1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/journal-submit.html
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User


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Hartmut Goebel

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