Logs ?

[senf666]

How can I verify anon is working ?

Imagine anon is running in a country where anonymous edits are few and far between. Anon is running but how do I know it's actually working? I don't see log files, perhaps we should add a log file?

I can see a node process that is spawned. What happens when this process dies, no logs right ?

Maybe there are logs that I'm not seeing ?

Thanks.

[ineffyble]

From the README:

If you would like to see all the change activity (URLs for each change) to test that it is actually listening use the --verbose flag:

./anon.coffee --verbose

[edsu]

Better logging would be a good thing, I'll leave this open till we have it.

[senf666]

I start as follows
./anon.coffee &

however the process dies after x hours. I have no logs to read , hence no idea why it died. Logs would be great. Thanks.

[edsu]

How does it die? Are you running on a laptop that goes to sleep? Did you try the --verbose flag?

[remagio]

Temp solution for linux: the most used supervisor for logging&keeping up nodesjs apps for you is "supervisord". It's autonomic. It manage start, stop and autonomous restart if nodejs app crash.

[senf666]

I am now attempting to get some logs to investigate by doing a nohip ./anon.coffee > log &

Remagio thanks must look into this.

[remagio]

@DannyCork once supervisors is deployed you can:

• set rights on anon deploy with a non-root-user: "chown -R user-run-anon:group-user-anon /yourpath-anon"
• create at "/etc/supervisor/conf.d" the "anon.conf" with:

  [program:anon]  
  command = /yourpath-anon/anon.coffee --verbose  
  directory = /yourpath-anon/  
  user = user-run-anon  
  autostart = true  
  autorestart = true  
  stdout_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/anon.log  
  stderr_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/anon_err.log

• start supervisor with: "service supervisor start"
• now it will start at every boot and restart it when crash