Timeout Openhab Console

[lubeda]

Hello,
i am using MobaXterm (which i like very much) under Windows to access my openhab console. There i usually use the command “log:tail” to view the output.
After some minutes the console closes automagicaly. I think this is an timeout from the console.

Is there a parameter to disable the timeout?

Greetings

[binderth (Thomas Binder)]

I don’t know the answer, but I guess the timeout is on purpose…
you could switch to the logviewer, which comes with openHABian (or just install fontail) though, it’s more convenient and also does show you events.log.

or you could also always just use in the shell (no timeout here):

tail -F /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log /var/log/openhab2/events.log

[lfs_alp5 (Alpoy)]

Probably related to https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome/issues/4520

[lubeda]

Since i run openhab in docker i need the console . But i try to access the logs from the docker host.

Thanks

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@binderth

or you could also always just use in the shell (no timeout here):

On Windows one would use the following from a Powershell terminal:

Get-Content $Env:OH_EVENTS -Wait

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@lubeda

Since i run openhab in docker i need the console . But i try to access the logs from the docker host.

You should have a volume mapped to userdata. The logs are stored in userdata/logs.