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