Saturday, 19 May 2012

Prevent the FitBit daemon from filling your system logs

On the Mac the FitBit daemon logs to the system.log but it can be a bit verbose.

The following change to the FitBit launch daemon should send the output to its own file: 
--- com.fitbit.fitbitd.plist.orig 2012-05-19 09:24:54.000000000 +0100
+++ com.fitbit.fitbitd.plist      2012-05-19 09:06:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -44,5 +44,9 @@
     <false/>
     <key>Disabled</key>
     <false/>
+    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
+    <string>/var/log/fitbitd.log</string>
+    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
+    <string>/var/log/fitbitd.log</string>
   </dict>
 </plist>
Don't forget to create the file ahead of time and give it the correct permissions. 
$ sudo touch /var/log/fitbitd.log && sudo chown nobody: /var/log/fitbitd.log
Restart fitbitd: 
$ cd /Library/LauchDaemons
$ sudo launchctl unload com.fitbit.fitbitd.plist
$ sudo launchctl load com.fitbit.fitbitd.plist
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  1. Unknown17 June 2012 at 03:15

    Thanks for this - really hard to debug other problems with fitbitd blathering on all the time.
    That log is going to get big, fast. I recommend adding a line to /etc/newsyslog.conf to roll it over, just like system.log:

    /var/log/fitbitd.log 640 7 * @T00 J

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