logfile requests

[mdcato]

I'd like to make three suggestions for the logfile. These will help in troubleshooting user issues.

1. Add an entry for the nwipe version, i.e. " info: nwipe 0.29.006", preferably as the first line of the logfile. That bit of info is just as important as system, baseboard, chassis, processor info, especially if the user is running an old version of nwipe and the issue has already been resolved.

2. Similarly, add the Linux/distribution info such as this from "cat /proc/version" from my Fedora system which can help if an issue is distribution-dependent:
   " info: Linux version 5.6.16-300.fc32.x86_64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 10.1.1 20200507 (Red Hat 10.1.1-1) (GCC)) No help footer when running program #1 SMP Thu Jun 4 18:08:38 UTC 2020"

3. As shown in No help footer when running program #1, right-justify the " info: ", "notice: ", " error: ", etc so that it's easier to visually scan for specific strings (if not using grep), and as our (old-school) teachers used to say "neatness counts".

[PartialVolume]

I agree with all those suggestions. Are you planning on doing a pull request? In which case I'll assign it to you. If not I can assign it to me.

[mdcato]

I’m still gun-shy from having a PR killed by clang problems for files I didn’t touch, so would prefer you assign it to yourself. That said, I also volunteered to @louib to run clang things on Fedora 32 if he doesn’t want to commit resources to yet-another-distribution. From: PartialVolume <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 13:09 To: martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Cato / Hays Technical Services <[email protected]>; Author <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe] logfile requests (#280) I agree with all those suggestions. Are you planning on doing a pull request? In which case I'll assign it to you. If not I can assign it to me. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#280 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANGK2PSNCAX3FN4FJ6L4LVTRWZPTJANCNFSM4N6MWBCQ>.

[PartialVolume]

No problem, I'll schedule it into v0.29 and assign it to myself. We should releasing 0.29 very soon. I took a bit of a break from nwipe but am planning to get back into it ASAP.

[PartialVolume]

@mdcato This is next on my list, apologies for the delay, I've been too busy in the last couple of months to catch up with nwipe issues, but am working on it now.

[PartialVolume]

Closed by #297