On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:29:39AM -0500, Selva Nair wrote:
> > > Since we know where we're sending the log file to, some enhancement to
> > > the GUI to just go read that file in case the management interface
> fails
> > > to connect (after <x> seconds?) would be good for troubleshooting.
> > >
> >
> > 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.

Selva

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