[pdm-devel] [PATCH datacenter-manager 2/3] fix #7179: cli: admin: expose acme commands

[Shan Shaji]

On Tue Jan 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM CET, Lukas Wagner wrote:
> On Tue Jan 27, 2026 at 12:14 PM CET, Shan Shaji wrote:
>>>> @@ -21,13 +22,17 @@ async fn run() -> Result<(), Error> {
>>>>          &pdm_api_types::AccessControlConfig,
>>>>          pdm_buildcfg::configdir!("/access"),
>>>>      )?;
>>>> +    proxmox_acme_api::init(pdm_buildcfg::configdir!("/acme"), false)?;
>>>> +
>>>>      proxmox_log::Logger::from_env("PDM_LOG", proxmox_log::LevelFilter::INFO)
>>>> +        .stderr_on_no_workertask()
>>>>          .stderr()
>>>>          .init()?;
>>>
>>> Doing this actually prints all messages logged outside a workertask
>>> *twice*, since this adds two subscribers that will print to stdout.
>>>
>>> I think it would make more sense to:
>>>
>>>     proxmox_log::Logger::from_env("PDM_LOG", proxmox_log::LevelFilter::INFO)
>>>         .tasklog_pbs()
>>>         .stderr()
>>>         .init()?;
>>>
>>> ... which should print *all* messages to stderr and messages from within
>>> a task log will also be stored in the task log.
>>
>> or could we keep the `stderr_on_no_workertask()` and remove the
>> `stderr`?
>
> No, then you would not get any log output from any code that runs within
> the worker, that would not be ideal.
>
> Maybe check out the defintion of these builder methods in
> proxmox-log/src/builder.rs, I think the doc comments makes the behavior
> a bit more clear.
>
> Since this is a CLI tool, I would say that every log message that is
> produced in the code should go to stderr in any case, as this might
> contain important information for interactive or scripted use cases - so
> `.stderr()`.

Hey lukas, thank you so much for the detailed explanation. 
Makes sense to register both the tasklog_pbs() and stderr() layers.  

> As a bonus I think it's valuable to have logs of the worker tasks inside
> the task logs as well, hence the `.tasklog_pbs()` (maybe we should
> reconsider the name, this is not really PBS specific any more).

then should i rename the function to `tasklog` and update all call sites
in both PDM and PBS?