From fc03d7aea9b8bdef613d99d0c0cbc042b9f5e298 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zaiming Shi <zmstone@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 15:17:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(config): use config value default log.to for daemon mode

---
 bin/emqx | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/emqx b/bin/emqx
index 9aba13192..c26c0f8fc 100755
--- a/bin/emqx
+++ b/bin/emqx
@@ -339,6 +339,10 @@ case "$1" in
         # Bootstrap daemon command (check perms & drop to $RUNNER_USER)
         bootstrapd
 
+        # this flag passes down to console mode
+        # so we know it's intended to be run in daemon mode
+        export _EMQX_START_MODE="$1"
+
         # Save this for later.
         CMD=$1
         case "$1" in
@@ -519,7 +523,9 @@ case "$1" in
         esac
 
         # set before generate_config
-        export EMQX_LOG__TO='console'
+        if [ "${_EMQX_START_MODE:-}" = '' ]; then
+            export EMQX_LOG__TO="${EMQX_LOG__TO:-console}"
+        fi
 
         #generate app.config and vm.args
         generate_config
@@ -562,7 +568,7 @@ case "$1" in
         # or other supervision services
 
         # set before generate_config
-        export EMQX_LOG__TO='console'
+        export EMQX_LOG__TO="${EMQX_LOG__TO:-console}"
 
         #generate app.config and vm.args
         generate_config