Foregrounding a long-running (init) process?

[senpro-ingwersenk]

I am running dinit in my container to manage a few services I'd like to run (about five or so) and it is configured to log everything to the common console. However, how exactly do I see the container logs? - Think docker logs -f $id, but for the devcontainer.

Config (removed a few project specifics):

{
  "name": "Devcontainers Environment",
  "build": {
    "dockerfile": "Dockerfile",
    "args": {
      "DINIT_VERSION": "v0.19.3",
      "SURREALDB_VERSION": "v2.1.4"
    }
  },
  "workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder}/,target=/workspace,type=bind,consistency=cached",
  "workspaceFolder": "/workspace",
  "forwardPorts": [5000, 8000, 8080, 8090],
  "otherPortsAttributes": {
    "onAutoForward": "ignore"
  },
  "portsAttributes": {
    "5000": {
      "label": "Surrealist",
      "protocol": "http",
      "onAutoForward": "openPreview"
    },
    "8080": {
      "label": "App HTTP",
      "protocol": "http",
      "onAutoForward": "ignore"
    },
    "8090": {
      "label": "Air-To-App Proxy",
      "protocol": "http",
      "onAutoForward": "openBrowserOnce"
    },
    "8000": {
      "label": "SurrealDB",
      "protocol": "http"
    }
  },
  "hostRequirements": {
    "cpus": 2,
    "memory": "3gb",
    "storage": "256mb"
  },
  "customizations": {
    "vscode": {
      "extensions": [
        "golang.go",
        "dbaeumer.vscode-eslint",
        "vitejs.vite",
        "tamasfe.even-better-toml",
        "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
        "surrealdb.surrealql",
        "bradlc.vscode-tailwindcss",
        "WallabyJs.console-ninja",
        "jawei.autopreviewer"
      ]
    }
  },
  "containerEnv": {
    "TZ": "Europe/Berlin",
    "SURREAL_NO_BANNER": "true",
    "SURREAL_STRICT": "true",
    "SURREAL_CLIENT_IP": "socket",
    "SURREAL_AUTH": "true",
    "SURREAL_USER": "...",
    "SURREAL_PASS": "...",
    "SURREAL_NAMESPACE": "...",
    "SURREAL_DATABASE": "...",
    "SURREAL_HIDE_WELCOME": "true",
    "WORKSPACE_FOLDER": "${containerWorkspaceFolder}"
  },
  "overrideCommand": true,
  "postStartCommand": ["/usr/local/bin/dinit", "-o"]
}

My current "solution" is postStartCommand - but that isn't exactly a great solution, now is it x)

After restoring my session from the previous day, I can't get to dinit's output anymore - but the command is still alive:

root@89b0222938af:/workspace# dinitctl list
[[+]     ] boot
[{+}     ] air (pid: 47948)
[{+}     ] prep-workspace
[{+}     ] ensure-workspace
[[+]     ] surrealdb (pid: 37757)
[{+}     ] vite (pid: 480)
[{+}     ] surrealist (pid: 363)

...so that's good. Still, it'd be great to have this sorted the proper way.

Thank you!

• ref: dinit = https://github.com/davmac314/dinit