From: Gert D. <ge...@gr...> - 2016-02-12 15:15:56
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Hi, On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:56:15AM -0500, Selva Nair wrote: > > > This is tricky..First, if the config is not readable, log file is not set > > > at that time and log goes to stdout (mapped to "/dev/null" by the GUI). > > > Even otherwise parsing the log to figure out what went wrong is not > > always > > > an easy task for a program. > > > > I'm not sure this description is fully correct - doesn't the GUI (via > > service) pass the log file before --config with the remaining options? > > No, currently --config goes first. Which we might want to turn around, then (changes user-visible behaviour in case the config file has a "log mylog.txt" line)... Anyway, I don't want to be actually the one who solves that, I'm just a user who tends to run into user-unfriendliness all the time :-) gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany ge...@gr... fax: +49-89-35655025 ge...@ne... |