[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#911184: wicd-daemon: Please make log file location configurable

[Axel Beckert]

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Hi Dmitry,

Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> I am working on integrating wicd-daemon with Runit supervision
> system, which assumes logging on stdout.

Cool!

> please make log file location configurable at run time.
> 
> In most cases, daemons have option to specify log file location, and
> providing /dev/stdout fulfils my needs. Wicd, on other hand have path
> to log file hardcoded in setup.py.

There is indeed a directory path (not file path!) in setup.py, but the
hardcoded file name is actually in wicd/wicd-daemon.py.

Then again, wicd/logfile.py seems to have already support for logging
to stdout or stderr.

And as I read the code from wicd/wicd-daemon.py lines 1803 to 1827 and
lines 1882 to 1905, starting the daemon with the option --no-stdout
(sic!) should do what you want. Alternatively try --no-stderr

Can you check if these options already help for your needs?

		Regards, Axel
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