try to fix logging again

src/main.ts

@@ -4,14 +4,33 @@ import { program } from "commander"
 import { parseJSON, parseTOML, stringifyJSON } from "confbox"
 import fs from "node:fs"
 import path from "node:path"
+import util from 'node:util'
 import strftime from 'strftime'
 import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"
 
-let config: { [key: string]: string } = {}
-let index: { [key: string]: { [key: string]: string } } = {}
+let logfd = 1
+
+function logToFile() {
+    // Source - https://stackoverflow.com/a
+    // Posted by Clément Désiles, modified by community. See post 'Timeline' for change history
+    // Retrieved 2026-01-14, License - CC BY-SA 3.0
+
+    logfd = fs.openSync('/etc/snapback/log.txt','w')
+    const logFile = fs.createWriteStream('', { 'fd':logfd });
+    const logStdout = process.stdout;
+
+    console.log = function (...args) {
+        logFile.write(util.format.apply(null, args) + '\n');
+        logStdout.write(util.format.apply(null, args) + '\n');
+    }
+    console.error = console.log;
+}
+
+let config: { [key: string]: string|undefined } = {}
+let index: { [key: string]: { [key: string]: string|undefined }|undefined } = {}
 
 function sugoiSpawn(...command: string[]) {
-    const result = spawnSync(command.shift()!, command, { stdio: 'inherit' })
+    const result = spawnSync(command.shift()!, command, { stdio: ['ignore',logfd,logfd] })
     if (result.error) throw result.error
     if (result.status !== 0) process.exit(result.status)
     return result
@@ -49,13 +68,15 @@ program.command('install').description('installs snapback on your system')
         }
         fs.renameSync(argv0, lib_snapper + '/plugins/99-snapback')
         sugoiSpawn('chmod', '+x', lib_snapper + '/plugins/99-snapback')
+        sugoiSpawn('systemctl','daemon-reload')
         console.log('snapback installed')
     })
 
 program.command('create-snapshot-post <subvolume> <fstype> <number>')
     .description('create a backup after a snapshot')
     .action(function (subvolume, fstype, number) {
-        if (!config[subvolume]) return
+        logToFile()
+        if (!config[subvolume]) {console.log(subvolume + ' not configured for snapback'); return}
         const destination = strftime(config[subvolume])
         const dirname = path.dirname(destination)
         try { fs.mkdirSync(dirname, { 'recursive': true }) } catch {}
@@ -64,6 +85,7 @@ program.command('create-snapshot-post <subvolume> <fstype> <number>')
             '--create', '--file', destination,
             '--auto-compress', '--dereference', '.'
         )
+        if(!index[subvolume]) index[subvolume]={}
         index[subvolume][number] = destination
         console.log('created backup at '+destination)
     })
@@ -71,7 +93,16 @@ program.command('create-snapshot-post <subvolume> <fstype> <number>')
 program.command('delete-snapshot-post <subvolume> <fstype> <number>')
     .description('delete a backup after deleting a snapshot')
     .action(function (subvolume, fstype, number) {
+        logToFile()
+        if (!index[subvolume]) {
+            console.log('no backups indexed for ' + subvolume)
+            return
+        }
         const destination = index[subvolume][number]
+        if (!destination) {
+            console.log('no backup indexed for ' + subvolume + ':' + number)
+            return
+        }
         fs.unlinkSync(destination)
         delete index[subvolume][number]
         console.log('deleted backup at '+destination)
@@ -80,7 +111,12 @@ program.command('delete-snapshot-post <subvolume> <fstype> <number>')
 program.command('delete-config-post <subvolume> <fstype>')
     .description('delete metadata of deleted subvolume, retaining backups')
     .action(function (subvolume, fstype) {
+        logToFile()
         delete index[subvolume]
+        if (!config[subvolume]) {
+            console.log(subvolume + ' not configured for snapback')
+            return
+        }
         const destination = strftime(config[subvolume])
         const dirname = path.dirname(destination)
         console.log('existing backups remain at '+dirname)