On 2023-04-29 02:49, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: >> No, this is correct although perhaps /var/log/mympd/mympd.log would have >> been less error prone? >> IIRC mympd is supposed to write to a subdirectory within /var/log and >> this change would break the service. > > The only consumer of a 'log-to' is Shepherd, as far as I can see; so > mympd doesn't get to know where the log is going (its output goes to > stdout/stderr, captured by Shepherd), so shouldn't be writing anything > under /var/log/mympd. Looking at upstream, they ship a fancy systemd > service which wouldn't log to text files but to the journal, closer in > spirit to syslog.
Oh you're right, I must have been misremembering this. > For symmetry with mpd, I've now adjusted logging of mympd to default to > syslog (and found it had an erroneous requirement on 'syslog rather than > syslogd with the test :-)). > Nice!
