Re: Several questions on Guix(SD)

["Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>]

Hi Leo,

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 19:23:11 -0400
Leo Famulari <leo@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 <leo@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