default logfile should be /dev/null

Question

default logfile should be /dev/null

Closed this issue 13 years ago · 2 comments

Leaving a file in the current directory is annoying and messy. It's usually never checked. If you want to see the output of running the daemon, you run it without daemonizing. If you want to daemonize and see the logs, you can explicitly define where to put them. Otherwise, we should just not care to log.

Answer 1 · 2012-04-02T23:34:14.000Z

There alternative is to create a logfile in /tmp ... but since default behavior sometimes because defacto behavior, it might not be a good idea to do that.

Answer 2 · 2012-04-19T02:26:07.000Z

I think you shouldn't have to decide to daemonize and log output. That is the common case when you daemonize, so we should just do it. Closing this until brought up again.