On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 9:00:18 PM UTC-4, Tom Mitchell wrote: > > FWIW, I have been using phusion/baseimage > <https://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/> as a base for my Docker > builds and it pipes syslog to stdout by default - that works fine for me. > > That said, I think it would be better if weewx were to log to stdout by > default since it is kind of the default for Unix/variants. Not depending on > syslogd seems like a nice simplification of the runtime. >
it is probably incorrect for weewx to assume that syslog exists, but not because it is not the 'unix way'. on the contrary, syslog IS the unix way. systemd is perverting the 'unix way', and not in a helpful or good way. it is quite helpful to have weewx log messages in syslog - if there are hardware issues, or clock skew, or usb devices plugging/unplugging, or other system stuff happening, you see it right there with the weewx messages. makes diagnostics much easier. we had to make a syslog shim to do the windows port of weewx, so not depending on syslog has other benefits too. emitting log messages to stdout is not appropriate, and is definitely not the 'unix way'. log messages should go to the log, whether that is syslog, syslog-redirected-to-rsyslog-server, a file in /var/log, or whatever. when you run weewx directly, the observation data go to stdout. it would be more appropriate to default the log output to a file, with log rotation (preferably date-time stamped names, not incrementing index names). for example, for a setup.py install the log would go to /home/weewx/log/weewx and for a deb/rpm install the log would go to /var/log/weewx of course, it must be easy to change the name of the basename of the log file so that multiple instances of weewx can send to different files, each with their own rollovers m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/3aea5121-69a6-436c-8ddf-f51636142de6%40googlegroups.com.
