change config has no effect on log location

[mzy2240]

log still points to /var/log/ticktock.log even after changing to other location in the config. version 0.10.2

[mzy2240]

this is the command I am using to run: bin/tt -c conf/tt.conf tt.conf has been modified in advance

[ylin30]

What does the output of 'bin/tt -c conf/tt.conf' say? E.g.,

ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$ ./bin/tt -c conf/tt.conf &
[1] 531
ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$  TickTock v0.10.2,  Maintained by
 Yongtao You (yongtao.you@gmail.com) and Yi Lin (ylin30@gmail.com).
 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. It is free software,
 and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
 For details, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Writing to log file: /home/ticktock/tmp/log/ticktock.log

ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$

You can try this cmd. Any config which are not default will be printed out.

ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$ ./admin/config.sh
{
  "append.log.dir": "/home/ticktock/tmp/append",
  "http.listener.count": "4",
  "log.file": "/home/ticktock/tmp/log/ticktock.log",
  "log.level": "INFO",
  "tcp.buffer.size": "128kb",
  "tcp.listener.count": "4",
  "tsdb.compact.frequency": "0sec",
  "tsdb.compressor.version": "3",
  "tsdb.data.dir": "/home/ticktock/tmp/data",
  "tsdb.flush.frequency": "1min",
  "tsdb.gc.frequency": "5min",
  "tsdb.page.count": "655360",
  "tsdb.page.size": "128b",
  "tsdb.self_meter.enabled": "false",
  "tsdb.thrashing.threshold": "2min"
}
ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$

[mzy2240]

 TickTock v0.10.2,  Maintained by
 Yongtao You (yongtao.you@gmail.com) and Yi Lin (ylin30@gmail.com).
 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. It is free software,
 and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
 For details, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Failed to open file /var/log/ticktock.log for writing: 13
2023-01-20 19:49:38.785 [INFO] [main] TickTock version: 0.10.2, on khadas-vim3, pid: 30739

[mzy2240]

ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$ ./admin/config.sh

Nothing returns

[ylin30]

hm, looks like that your conf/tt.conf is the original one. Can you send me your copy?

[mzy2240]

I can confirm data is received by db and could query the data out from db. So it is working as expected with home assistant. The only issue left is the log.

[ylin30]

Can you do a git status and git diff? It may show what has been changed in your config.

[mzy2240]

[ylin30]

oh, you have a ';' in the front of "log.file=/home/khadas/....".

Remove the ';' (it means commenting out). It will work.

[ylin30]

Still puzzling me what your cmd './admin/config.sh' returns nothing?

[mzy2240]

oh, you have a ';' in the front of "log.file=/home/khadas/....".

Remove the ';' (it means commenting out). It will work.

Now no any error occurs.

[mzy2240]

Still puzzling me what your cmd './admin/config.sh' returns nothing?

khadas@khadas-vim3:~/ticktock$ ./admin/config.sh

khadas@khadas-vim3:~/ticktock$

[ylin30]

hm. Looks like your TT process is dead. Can you do './admin/ping.sh'? It is supposed to return a 'pong' if alive.

Look at the output below. Ping.sh returned nothing at the first cmd since TT is not started yet. After TT started, Ping.sh returned 'pong'.

ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$ ./admin/ping.sh

ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$ ./bin/tt -c conf/tt.conf &
[1] 594
ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$  TickTock v0.10.2,  Maintained by
 Yongtao You (yongtao.you@gmail.com) and Yi Lin (ylin30@gmail.com).
 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. It is free software,
 and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
 For details, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Writing to log file: /home/ticktock/tmp/log/ticktock.log

ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$ ./admin/ping.sh
pong
ticktock@tt-dev:~/ticktock$

[mzy2240]

./admin/ping.sh

Still nothing returned.

[mzy2240]

NVM. I figured it out. I am running ticktock from a live ssh session, and everytime when I ran ./admin/ping.sh or ./admin/config.sh, I always stop the ticktock instance first ...