├── readme.mdown
└── install.sh


/readme.mdown:
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 1 | # Improvements to the Fitbit installer for Mac OS X
 2 | 
 3 | Out of the box, the Fitbit software sends all its logs straight to Console. This is unnecessarily noisy if you use Console a lot, and it bloats the syslog archives. This little fix-up script for the Fitbit installer will:
 4 | 
 5 | - Redirect fitbitd's logs to its own log file at /var/log/fitbitd.log
 6 | - Add an entry to OS X's built-in log rotation to compress and turn over these logs when they get large.
 7 | 
 8 | ## To Install
 9 | 
10 | Mimicking [Homebrew](http://brew.sh), the install process is simple:
11 | 
12 |     curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/cbowns/fitbit/master/install.sh | zsh -s
13 | 
14 | ## Having issues?
15 | 
16 | File a bug at https://github.com/cbowns/fitbit/issues/new with as much information as you can provide, and I'll see what's up.


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/install.sh:
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 1 | #!/bin/zsh
 2 | # A short script to clean up fitbitd's verbose logging, by redirecting it to a logfile.
 3 | # Created by Christopher Bowns on 2011-09-25
 4 | # Copyright 2011 Mechanical Pants Software
 5 | 
 6 | # here's the lowdown:
 7 | # 1. set /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.fitbit.fitbitd's StandardErrorPath to /var/log/fitbitd.log
 8 | # 2. kick launchd so it sees the new entry
 9 | # 3. install an entry in newsyslog.conf so we rotate and toss old logs periodically
10 | 
11 | githubissues="https://github.com/cbowns/fitbit/issues/new"
12 | 
13 | fitbitplistshort="/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.fitbit.fitbitd"
14 | fitbitplist="$fitbitplistshort.plist"
15 | stderrkey="StandardErrorPath"
16 | stdoutkey="StandardOutPath"
17 | fitbitlogpath_noprivate="/var/log/fitbitd.log"
18 | fitbitlogpath="/private$fitbitlogpath_noprivate"
19 | fitbitjobkey="com.fitbit.fitbitd"
20 | 
21 | 
22 | { defaults read $fitbitplistshort $stderrkey 2>&1 } > /dev/null
23 | stdErrExists=$?
24 | { defaults read $fitbitplistshort $stdoutkey 2>&1 } > /dev/null
25 | stdOutExists=$?
26 | if [ $stdErrExists != 0 -o $stdOutExists != 0 ]; then
27 | 	echo "Setting up fitbitd output redirection"
28 | 
29 | 	sudo defaults write $fitbitplistshort $stderrkey "$fitbitlogpath" 2>&1 > /dev/null
30 | 	sudo defaults write $fitbitplistshort $stdoutkey "$fitbitlogpath" 2>&1 > /dev/null
31 | 	sudo chmod a+r $fitbitplist
32 | 
33 | 	sudo touch $fitbitlogpath
34 | 	sudo chown nobody:admin $fitbitlogpath
35 | 
36 | 	sudo launchctl unload $fitbitplist
37 | 	sudo launchctl load $fitbitplist
38 | 
39 | 	sudo launchctl list $fitbitjobkey | grep $stderrkey 2>&1 > /dev/null
40 | 	stdErrRedirected=$?
41 | 	sudo launchctl list $fitbitjobkey | grep $stdoutkey 2>&1 > /dev/null
42 | 	stdOutRedirected=$?
43 | 	if [ $stdErrRedirected != 0 -o $stdOutRedirected != 0 ]; then
44 | 		echo "Couldn't confirm log redirection in launchd job! Please report an issue at $githubissues."
45 | 		exit 1
46 | 	else
47 | 		echo "fitbitd output redirection done"
48 | 	fi
49 | else
50 | 	echo "fitbitd's output is already redirected to $fitbitlogpath_noprivate, skipping launchd setup"
51 | fi
52 | 
53 | 
54 | newsyslogpath="/etc/newsyslog.conf"
55 | syslogRotationEntry="/var/log/fitbitd.log 666 5 5000 * J /var/run/com.fitbit.fitbitd.pid 14"
56 | 
57 | grep $fitbitlogpath_noprivate $newsyslogpath 2>&1 > /dev/null
58 | exitStatus=$?
59 | if [ $exitStatus != 0 ]; then
60 | 	echo "Setting up fitbitd log rotation"
61 | 	# some trickery here with tee to append it as root but not print the output:
62 | 	echo $syslogRotationEntry | sudo tee -a $newsyslogpath
63 | else
64 | 	echo "Log rotation for $fitbitlogpath_noprivate is already installed to $newsyslogpath, skipping"
65 | fi
66 | 


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