always write index

src/main.ts

@@ -8,29 +8,11 @@ import util from 'node:util'
 import strftime from 'strftime'
 import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"
 
-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: ['ignore',logfd,logfd] })
+    const result = spawnSync(command.shift()!, command, { stdio: 'inherit' })
     if (result.error) throw result.error
     if (result.status !== 0) process.exit(result.status)
     return result
@@ -75,7 +57,6 @@ program.command('install').description('installs snapback on your system')
 program.command('create-snapshot-post <subvolume> <fstype> <number>')
     .description('create a backup after a snapshot')
     .action(function (subvolume, fstype, number) {
-        logToFile()
         if (!config[subvolume]) {console.log(subvolume + ' not configured for snapback'); return}
         const destination = strftime(config[subvolume])
         const dirname = path.dirname(destination)
@@ -93,7 +74,6 @@ 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
@@ -111,7 +91,6 @@ 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')
@@ -124,4 +103,4 @@ program.command('delete-config-post <subvolume> <fstype>')
 
 program.parse()
 
-if (Object.keys(index).length) fs.writeFileSync(program.opts().indexFile,stringifyJSON(index), 'utf8')
+fs.writeFileSync(program.opts().indexFile,stringifyJSON(index), 'utf8')