Hi Leo, On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 19:23:11 -0400 Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:03:32PM +0200, Björn Höfling wrote: > > Leo, thank you for your answers. I would like some more > > clarifications: > > > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:49:21 -0400 > > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > > > The log output of the daemon goes wherever your daemons normally > > > log to. On most recent versions of the major distros, this is > > > handled by systemd / journald. > > > > My distro in that case is GuixSD, using shepherd. So I found > > information about guix-daemon start and stop events > > in /var/log/shepherd.log. But I want some more information about > > the daemon. Is guix-daemon so silent? > > > > I figured out that I can (modify-services %base-services ...) for > > adding the "--debug" extra-options to guix-daemon. Still I see only > > start/stop log entries in shepherd.log. What am I missing? > > Somebody else could answer this better than me, but I'll give it a > shot. The guix-daemon is indeed laconic, even with --debug. Here, is > what it prints when I start it manually and run `guix gc > -d /gnu/store/...-hello`: > > --- > # /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild > --debug extra chroot directories: '' > automatic deduplication set to 1 > listening on `/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket' > accepted connection from pid 9343, user leo > 1 operations > --- > > On GuixSD, it seems that the daemon just prints to the console. I > have a non-graphical system and the daemon's output is rather > annoying in the rare case that I am sitting at the machine. > > If you are looking for logs of package building, you can do `guix > build foo --log-file`. You will often need to add `--no-grafts` to > see the "real" build log instead of the log of the grafting operation. > > Does that help answer your question at all? I also noticed that it prints to the console. I hoped that it would print a bit more output to some logfile. But that's fine for now, that answers my question. Thank you. Björn
