Another emonPi stopped logging thread

[mozster (Moz Ahmed)]

sorry, I’ve just noticed this post:

Reboot Required Every 20 Days Or So To Restore Logging

The most useful log is emonhub.log. You also need to log the status of the following services, emonhub, feedwriter and mqtt_input. A “top” printout to show RAM usage by process and cpu usage might be useful too. [edit - also if you must use a watchdog, you really should check emoncms directly rather than openhab. you are not checking to see it the data is updating, you are checking to see if the data is being shared with openhab. emoncms and emonhub might not be failing if you are checking op…

emonhub.log (364.1 KB) doesn’t cover the period when the error first occurred looks like it has a lot of noise? I’ve attached the most recent version, but I think I need to adjust the logrotate.conf file so I keep logs over a longer period?

looking at /etc/systemd/system/mqtt_input.service I think it’s not logging by default? and I need to uncomment for it to log to syslog?

[Unit]
Description=Emoncms MQTT Input Script
After=mosquitto.service mysql.service redis.service
Documentation=https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/blob/master/docs/RaspberryPi/MQTT.md

[Service]
Type=idle
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php /var/www/emoncms/scripts/phpmqtt_input.php

# Uncomment instead of above to use standard log file, else use systemd log
# Type=forking
# ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/php /var/www/emoncms/scripts/phpmqtt_input.php 2>&1 > /var/log/mqtt_input.log &'

# Restart script if stopped
Restart=always
# Wait 60s before restart
RestartSec=60

# Tag things in the log
# View with: sudo journalctl -f -u mqtt_input -o cat
SyslogIdentifier=mqtt_input

# Un-comment to pipe log to syslog
#StandardOutput=syslog

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I can’t figure out where I need to enable logs for feedwriter? should I edit /etc/init.d/feedwriter? or the thing that calls the init script?

sorry for the shotgun approach to asking questions, would welcome any help