# Command Line Interface

```
lw [options] [< input]
lw -c|--config FILE [options]
lw -p|--preset NAME[:KEY=VALUE,...] [options]
lw -t|--check [options]
lw --dump [options]
lw -T|--tui [options]
lw auth COMMAND [flags]
lw tls COMMAND [flags]
lw preset NAME [flags]
lw config init [--out FILE]
lw help | -h | --help
lw -V | --version | --schema
```

Without a configuration file or pipeline options, lw is a filter: stdin to
stdout, line for line, until the end of input ([Built-in
Defaults](#built-in-defaults)). With a file it runs the file's pipelines as a
service.

A [preset](#presets) builds a common pipeline from a few keys. `lw auth`
manages SCRAM credentials and logs in to `scram` listeners
([below](#lw-auth)); `lw tls` makes a certificate authority and certificates
([below](#lw-tls)); `lw config init` writes the annotated default
configuration ([below](#lw-config)). A command is recognized only as the
first argument.

## Options

- lw's own options have a long form (`--config`), and the frequent ones a
  one-letter short form that stands for it in every command that has it:
  - `-c` `--config`, `-p` `--preset`, `-q` `--quiet`, `-t` `--check`,
    `-T` `--tui`, `-V` `--version`, `-h` `--help`
  - `-u` `--user` in `lw auth` and `lw preset edge`
- A value follows as the next argument or after `=` (`-c FILE`, `-c=FILE`,
  `--config FILE`, `--config=FILE`); a value that starts with `-` follows `=`,
  and `--` ends the options.
- A switch (`--check`, `--quiet`, any boolean key) takes no separate value:
  `--quiet=false`, not `--quiet false`.
- Short options do not combine (`-q -t`, not `-qt`) or take an attached value
  (`-cFILE`).
- lw takes options only. An unknown option and a word no option takes (`lw
  tail`, `lw -t FILE`) are usage errors, named on stderr.
- lw's multiword options join words with `-` (`--rate-limit`,
  `--password-file`); configuration keys, spec keys and preset keys keep
  TOML's `_` and `.` (`--status_reporter`, `--sink http:tls.cert_file=F`,
  `lw preset edge --password_file F`).
- The commands also take a long option after one dash (`-user NAME`).

Any scalar configuration key is settable as a flag using its TOML path;
pipelines have [their own flags](#pipelines):

```
--<path>=<value>        e.g. --logging.level=debug
--<path> <value>        e.g. --logging.level debug
--<path>                a switch: true, for a boolean path only
```

### Common

- `-c FILE`, `--config FILE`: the configuration file; unnamed,
  `~/.config/logwisp/logwisp.toml` if it exists, else `./logwisp.toml`
  ([Configuration](configuration.md#file-location))
- `-t`, `--check`: build every pipeline and plugin, bind nothing, report and
  exit; see [Usage Patterns](#usage-patterns)
- `--dump`: print the effective configuration, flags, environment and presets
  resolved into it, as TOML that `-c` reads back, and exit
- `-T`, `--tui`: compose the pipelines on screen, then run or print them
  ([below](#lw---tui))
- `--schema`: print every setting, pipeline flag, flow stage, plugin option,
  preset and output form as one JSON document, and exit; tools build their
  option lists from it:
  - a key: its kind, default, rules and help; a table (`tls`, `auth`, `acl`)
    holds its own keys, those of the plugin's side (listener or dialer),
    HTTP's only on a plugin that speaks HTTP. Every listener lists
    `auth.node_binding` and `auth.trusted_proxies`, which validation admits
    only on chain sources and on the http sink
  - a flow stage: its keys, and `on`, the values that turn it on
  - a preset key: its default and help, and the choices (`enum`) and `hint`
    of the option it sets
  - `forms`: `command`, `environment` and `file`, each with its hint
- `--color [WHEN]`, WHEN `auto`, `always` or `never`: level names in color on
  console sinks, default `auto` (a terminal, `NO_COLOR` unset, `TERM` not
  `dumb`); bare, `always`. A console sink's own `color` wins
  ([console sink](sinks.md#console))
- `-q`, `--quiet`: silence lw's own log and notices, default `false`;
  pipeline output still flows
- `--status_reporter=BOOL`: periodic status logging, default `true` with a
  configuration file, `false` without
- `--auto_reload=BOOL`: reload when the configuration file changes, default
  `false`
- `-V`, `--version`: print the version and exit
- `-h`, `--help`, `help`: print every option, pointing to `man lw` for the
  full reference, and exit

The last `-c` wins; a missing or empty path is an error.

### Logging

- `--logging.output`: `file`, `stdout`, `stderr`, `split`, `all` or `none`,
  default `stderr`, so stdout carries only data
- `--logging.level`: `debug`, `info`, `warn` or `error`, default `info` with a
  configuration file, `warn` without
- `--logging.format`: `raw`, `txt` or `json`
- `--logging.sanitization`: `raw`, `json`, `txt` or `shell`
- `--logging.file.directory`: a path
- `--logging.file.name`: a string
- `--logging.file.max_size_mb`, `--logging.file.max_total_size_mb`: integers
- `--logging.file.retention_hours`: a float

`--logging.console.target` is accepted but has no effect; the console
destination is derived from `--logging.output`.

### Pipelines

Pipeline flags define whole pipelines. They replace the configuration file's
pipelines and the built-in default; every other key keeps its precedence.

- `--pipeline NAME` starts a pipeline; specs before the first one go to a
  pipeline named `cli`, or after the preset that starts them
- `-p SPEC`, `--preset SPEC` starts a pipeline with a [preset](#presets);
  later flags add sources, sinks and filters to it, or replace its format,
  rate limit and heartbeat
- `--source SPEC`, `--sink SPEC` and `--filter SPEC` add a stage, repeatable
- `--format SPEC`, `--rate-limit SPEC` and `--heartbeat SPEC`, once per pipeline
- a pipeline without `--source` reads stdin (console source `stdin`), one
  without `--sink` writes stdout (console sink `stdout`)
- stdin has one reader, so the whole configuration holds at most one console
  source: `pipeline "b": a console source already reads stdin in pipeline "a"`

A SPEC is `TYPE:key=value,...`, or `key=value,...` without a TYPE:

- source, sink, filter and format specs start with a TYPE, which ends at the
  first `:`; a TYPE alone (`--sink null`, `--format txt`) takes the defaults
  - the plugin type: [Sources](sources.md), [Sinks](sinks.md)
  - `include` or `exclude`: [Filters](filters.md)
  - `json`, `txt` or `raw`: [Formatters](formatters.md)
- rate-limit and heartbeat specs have no TYPE
- the pairs are comma-separated, with the TOML keys of the plugin's `config`
  table or of the [flow stage](configuration.md#flow-stages)
  - a dotted key reaches a nested table: `tls.cert_file=...`, `auth.type=scram`
  - a repeated key makes a list: `patterns=ERROR,patterns=WARN`
  - each value is one list entry, commas included: `auth.allow_patterns=^a{1\,3}$`
    is one regex, `auth.allow=a,auth.allow=b` two entries
  - values convert to the option's type: `port=8080`, `raw=true`
- `\` escapes `,`, `=` and `\` in a value; any other backslash stays, so regex
  escapes such as `\d` pass unchanged; a `:` in a value needs no escape
  (`host=::1`, `listen=127.0.0.1:8080`)
- `id=NAME` names a source or sink; the default is its TYPE, then `TYPE_2`,
  `TYPE_3`, ...
- naming a stage turns it on: `--rate-limit` defaults `policy` to `drop`,
  `--heartbeat` defaults `enabled` to `true`

Errors name the flag and the offending part, and nothing starts:

```
--sink http:port: missing "="
--rate-limit entries_per_second=100,polcy=drop: unknown key "polcy"
--source file,directory=/x: TYPE ends at ':', as in file:directory=/x
```

A misspelled plugin key fails when the plugin is built, before any listener
opens: `failed to create sink http: ... unknown key "tls.enabeld"`.

```bash
# tail a directory, serve it over SSE on every interface; a browser at
# http://HOST:8080/ shows it
lw --source 'file:directory=/var/log/app,pattern=*.log' \
   --sink http:host=0.0.0.0,port=8080

# errors and warnings as JSON, over TLS with SCRAM logins
lw --source file:directory=/var/log/app \
   --filter include:patterns=ERROR,patterns=WARN --format json \
   --sink "http:port=8443,auth.type=scram,auth.credentials_file=/etc/logwisp/users.toml,\
tls.enabled=true,tls.cert_file=/etc/logwisp/server.crt,tls.key_file=/etc/logwisp/server.key"

# two pipelines: app writes stdout, relay a file
lw --pipeline app --source file:directory=/var/log/app \
   --pipeline relay --source tcp_chain:port=9000 \
   --sink file:directory=/var/log/relay,name=relay
```

Pipelines over stdin and stdout are under [Usage Patterns](#usage-patterns).

## Presets

`--preset NAME:key=value,...` takes the [SPEC](#pipelines) syntax. A list
key (`hosts`, `proxy`, `allow`, `deny`) takes several values: repeated
(`hosts=a,hosts=b`) or `\,`-separated in a SPEC, `,`-separated in `lw preset`
flags and the TUI; any other key takes one.
`lw preset NAME [--key value ...]` prints the pipeline a preset expands to,
ready for a configuration file; its flags are the keys, spelled as in the SPEC
(`--password_file`), and `-u` is `--user`;
`lw preset NAME -h` lists its keys and defaults, `lw preset` the presets. An
unknown key fails and lists the valid ones. A `path` is a file, a directory
(its files) or a glob; a preset that takes one reads stdin without it, and
`from` (`end`, or `start`) is where reading a file starts. `user` names one
SCRAM user, an edge's login or a listener's only user in place of `users`;
`password_file` holds its password and defaults to `/dev/tty`, which asks
([password sources](security.md#one-user-without-a-credentials-file)).

- `pipe`: stdin to stdout, the built-in default
  - `format` (`raw`)
- `tail`: follow files to stdout, like `tail -F`
  - `path` (required), `from`, `format` (`raw`)
- `serve`: a live stream, an [http sink](sinks.md#http): a browser at
  `listen` gets the viewer, `/stream` is SSE, each stream starting with the
  last 1000 entries
  - `path`, `from`, `format` (`json`), `listen` (`127.0.0.1:8080`)
  - `tls`: `off` (default), `self` (a self-signed certificate made at
    startup), `issuer` (one signed by `issuer_cert` and `issuer_key`), or
    `files` (`cert` and `key`); `hosts` adds names to a made certificate
  - without `user` or `users` the viewer needs no login, over plain http too
  - `allow` and `deny`: addresses or CIDRs, the sink's
    [acl](security.md#the-acl-block)
  - `users` (a credentials file) or `user`: readers then log in with SCRAM,
    which needs `tls` or `proxy`; browsers need `proxy` and `viewer=true`: the
    login page and viewer behind the TLS-terminating proxies `proxy` names,
    since a browser cannot bind its login to the TLS channel
- `edge`: forward to an aggregator over TLS (`tcp_chain`, or `http_chain`
  with `transport=http`)
  - `to` (required), `path`, `from`, `transport` (`tcp`), `node`
  - verify the aggregator by `ca` (a CA file; default: system roots) or `pin`
    (its `tls.pin_sha256`), and `server_name`
  - authenticate by `user` (SCRAM), or a client `cert` and `key` (mTLS):
    without either the preset refuses to run
- `aggregator`: receive from edges over TLS, to stdout or files
  - `listen` (`0.0.0.0:9000`), `transport` (`tcp`), `format` (`json`)
  - `tls`: `self` (default), `issuer` or `files`, as for `serve`; never `off`
  - authenticate by `users` or `user` (SCRAM), or `client_ca` (mTLS): one is
    required
  - `allow` and `deny`, as for `serve`
  - `out`: a directory for `aggregate*.log` files; default stdout

```bash
# follow a directory, level names in color on a terminal
lw --preset tail:path=/var/log/app

# serve it to a browser at http://127.0.0.1:8080/
lw --preset serve:path=/var/log/app

# serve it over HTTPS, self-signed, to SCRAM users; keep the result as a file
lw --preset serve:path=/var/log/app,tls=self,users=/etc/logwisp/users.toml --dump > serve.toml

# an aggregator with a certificate made at startup, and an edge pinning it
lw --preset aggregator:users=/etc/logwisp/users.toml,out=/var/log/edges
lw --preset edge:path=/var/log/app,to=agg.example.org:9000,pin=sha256//BASE64,\
user=edge-01,password_file=/etc/logwisp/edge-01.pass

# a temporary pipe, nothing on disk: Enter at the receiver's prompt draws the
# password, typed at the sender's; or both read it from a descriptor
lw -p aggregator:listen=0.0.0.0:9000,user=pipe,format=raw,allow=SENDER/32
cmd | lw -p edge:to=RECEIVER:9000,pin=sha256//BASE64,user=pipe
cmd | lw -p edge:to=RECEIVER:9000,pin=sha256//BASE64,user=pipe,\
password_file=/dev/fd/3 3< <(pass show lw/pipe)
```

A self-signed aggregator logs its pin at startup (`pin_sha256`, a warning, so
it shows without a configuration file too). The pin holds across reloads and
changes when lw restarts; a fleet signs with an issuer instead, and edges set
`ca`. See [Security](security.md#certificates-made-at-startup).

## Environment Variables

Configuration paths map to environment variables by replacing `.` with `_`,
uppercasing and adding `LOGWISP_`:

```bash
export LOGWISP_QUIET=true
export LOGWISP_LOGGING_LEVEL=debug
export LOGWISP_LOGGING_FILE_DIRECTORY=/var/log/logwisp
```

Bare names used by older versions are now ignored. Rename them to the prefixed
forms when upgrading; see [Configuration](configuration.md#environment-variables).

The path resolver reads these variables directly:

- `LOGWISP_CONFIG_FILE`: the configuration file path, joined onto
  `LOGWISP_CONFIG_DIR` when both are set
- `LOGWISP_CONFIG_DIR`: the configuration directory; alone, it implies
  `<dir>/logwisp.toml`

### Pipeline Variables

One pipeline can come from the environment, with the [SPEC](#pipelines) syntax.
Any pipeline flag on the command line makes LogWisp ignore all of them.

- `LOGWISP_PIPELINE`: the pipeline's name, default the `LOGWISP_PRESET` name,
  else `cli`
- `LOGWISP_PRESET`: the [preset](#presets) that starts it
- `LOGWISP_SOURCE`, `LOGWISP_SINK`, `LOGWISP_FILTER`: one stage each
  - `LOGWISP_SOURCE_1` .. `LOGWISP_SOURCE_N` add more, after the unnumbered
    one in numeric order; likewise `LOGWISP_SINK_N` and `LOGWISP_FILTER_N`
- `LOGWISP_FORMAT`, `LOGWISP_RATE_LIMIT`, `LOGWISP_HEARTBEAT`
- an empty variable counts as unset

A container needs no configuration file:

```bash
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 -v /var/log/app:/logs:ro \
  -e LOGWISP_PIPELINE=app \
  -e LOGWISP_SOURCE='file:directory=/logs,pattern=*.log' \
  -e LOGWISP_FILTER='exclude:patterns=DEBUG' \
  -e LOGWISP_SINK='http:host=0.0.0.0,port=8080' \
  -e LOGWISP_SINK_1=console \
  -e LOGWISP_LOGGING_LEVEL=info \
  logwisp
```

Without a file, lw logs at `warn` with no status reporter, so a container
configured through the environment passes `LOGWISP_LOGGING_LEVEL=info` (and
`LOGWISP_STATUS_REPORTER=true`) to keep the service defaults. The image does
not set them: environment variables would override a mounted file's values.

## Precedence

- Pipelines
  - pipeline flags, if any are given
  - else pipeline variables, if any are set
  - else the configuration file's `[[pipelines]]`
  - else the built-in `pipe` ([Built-in Defaults](#built-in-defaults))
- Every other key
  1. command-line flags
  2. environment variables
  3. configuration file
  4. built-in defaults; `logging.level` and `status_reporter` depend on
     whether a file was found

A reload rereads the file and keeps the command-line or environment pipelines.

## Signals

- `SIGINT`, `SIGTERM`: graceful shutdown
- `SIGHUP`, `SIGUSR1`: reload the configuration
- On the `lw --tui` screen, `SIGTERM` and `SIGHUP` close it, stopping what
  `t` runs, and lw exits 0

`SIGHUP` is ignored during startup, before the signal handler is installed, so
LogWisp survives a terminal hang-up like `nohup`. Once running, it triggers a
reload rather than terminating.

Reload rebuilds the whole service. A configuration error leaves the running
service untouched; see [Configuration](configuration.md#hot-reload).

## Exit Codes

- `0`: the end of input, a clean shutdown (`SIGINT`, `SIGTERM`), `--version` /
  `--help`, `--dump`, or a valid `--check`
- `1`: general error: a configuration load or validation failure (`--check`
  included, and a bad value on the command line), a logger init failure, a
  service bootstrap failure
- `2`: a usage error (an unknown option, a word no option takes, a missing
  value or `-c` path), or an explicitly requested configuration file that is
  not found
- killed by `SIGPIPE` (shell status `141`): the reader of stdout went away, as
  in `lw | head`; `cat` ends the same way

A missing file is exit code 2 only when it was named explicitly (`-c`,
`--config=`, or the `LOGWISP_CONFIG_*` variables). A missing discovered default
is not an error, and LogWisp starts on built-in defaults.

## Built-in Defaults

Without a configuration file and without pipeline flags or variables, lw runs
one built-in pipeline, `pipe`: console source `stdin`, `raw` format, console
sink `stdout`, no filter, no rate limit. lw is then a Unix filter, like `cat`:

```bash
lw < app.log > copy.log
```

- Each line of stdin is one entry and one line of stdout.
  - The terminator (`\n` or `\r\n`) is written back as `\n`; an unterminated
    last line is kept and terminated.
  - Blank lines are skipped.
  - A line over 1 MiB continues in the next entry; no byte is lost.
- Nothing is dropped: a slow reader slows the reading of stdin.
- On a terminal, control characters are written as `<hex>` (`ESC` becomes
  `<1b>`) and level names are in color; pipes and files get the bytes
  unchanged ([console sink](sinks.md#console)).
- When a console source reads a terminal, lw says so once on stderr, unless
  `--quiet`: `lw: reading standard input; Ctrl-D ends it (lw --help for usage)`.

A file that defines no `[[pipelines]]` still runs `pipe`. The file's
`[[pipelines]]`, or pipeline flags or variables, replace it whole.

Without a file lw also logs less: `logging.level` defaults to `warn` and
`status_reporter` to `false`, against `info` and `true` with one. Explicit
values from the file, the environment or flags win.

**End of input.** When stdin ends, the console source ends. A pipeline
finishes when all its sources have ended, and once every pipeline has
finished lw shuts down gracefully and exits 0. Only a console source ends on
its own: file and network sources run until a signal, and so does a pipeline
holding one. Every sink writes what is queued before the exit; a network
sink gives its clients or its downstream its `write_timeout_ms`
(`request_timeout_ms` for `http_chain`), at most 2 s, to take it.

## Usage Patterns

**Filter**

```bash
# copy, line for line; exits 0 at the end of input
lw < app.log > copy.log

# errors and warnings only
tail -F app.log | lw --filter include:patterns=ERROR,patterns=WARN

# stdin as a live SSE stream; the http and tcp sinks bind 0.0.0.0 by default
journalctl -f | lw --sink http:host=127.0.0.1,port=8080

# a directory's files to one file, through stdout
lw --source file:directory=/var/log/app,pattern='*.log' > all.log
```

A console sink never drops: when its reader is slow, the pipeline waits, and
so does the reading of stdin.

**Development**

```bash
# a file's pipelines, verbose
lw -c dev.toml --logging.level=debug
```

**Configuration check**

`lw --check` validates without running: it builds every pipeline and plugin as
a start would (options, TLS files, credentials files, startup warnings), but
binds no port, reads no stdin, and opens, reads or creates no log file; it
prints `configuration ok: N pipeline(s)` and exits 0. Otherwise it prints the
first problem of each setting, flow stage, source, sink and pipeline, a line
each named by its key's path, or else the first file that fails to open, and
exits 1 (2 when a named file is missing, see [Exit Codes](#exit-codes)):

```bash
lw --check -c /etc/logwisp/logwisp.toml
lw --check --source file:directory=/var/log/app --sink http:port=8080
```

```text
Error: Failed to load config: invalid configuration:
pipelines[0].plugin_sources[file].config.directory: must be set
pipelines[0].plugin_sinks[tcp].config.port: must be from 1 to 65535, got 70000
```

**Production**

```bash
lw -c /etc/logwisp/logwisp.toml --logging.output=file
```

Run it in the foreground under a supervisor (systemd, rc.d, a container
runtime); there is no `--background` flag. A supervisor's stdin is usually
`/dev/null`, where a console source ends at once, so a service's file defines
its pipelines. See [Operations](operations.md#starting) and
[Installation](installation.md).

**Reload**

```bash
kill -HUP  $(pidof lw)
kill -USR1 $(pidof lw)
```

## `lw --tui`

`lw --tui` (`-T`) composes pipelines on a full-screen terminal, drawn as the
website's configurator draws them, with the engine the website runs as
WebAssembly; `t` runs them under the screen and shows what flows.

- Start: the pipelines `lw` would run with the same options (`-c FILE`,
  pipeline flags, `LOGWISP_SOURCE`, a discovered file); with none but the
  built-in pipe, the preset menu (or `empty`). A pasted `lw` command line
  replaces the pipelines, in the preset menu too.
- Screen: the pipeline bar on top; SOURCES, FLOW and SINKS side by side
  from 64 columns, stacked below; each source and sink a tinted bar with its
  type, whether it listens or dials, and a summary; the four flow stages in
  their order in a dashed box, the ones off dimmed. The inspector, the
  chosen part's options with radio buttons for few choices, sits below the
  canvas, and beside it from 110 columns, where each part also lists up to
  four options it sets; wide screens size the columns to their content and
  centre them. Narrow panes stack labels, wrap text and scroll dialogs; the
  status line wraps to three rows.
- Keys: arrows or `hjkl` move; Enter inspects a part, opening on its first
  required key, then edits a value (empty returns it to its default), opens
  a list's choices or adds on an add row; in a value, Enter sets it, and Tab
  or Up/Down set it and move. Left/Right step a choice or set a switch;
  Space flips it; Esc goes back. `a` adds a source, sink or filter; `c`
  changes a source's or sink's type in its place; `d` deletes, or returns a
  value to its default; Space turns a flow stage on or off; `J`/`K` move a
  filter; `[` `]` switch pipelines; `p` presets; `!` shows every problem,
  moving to the first; `r` runs; `t` taps; `o` output; `?` keys; `q` quits.
- Pipelines: Up from a column's top row reaches the bar, where `[` `]` or
  Left/Right switch, `a` adds one (empty or from a preset), Enter renames and
  `d` deletes, asking first when it has parts.
- Output, `o`, each picked by its letter: `r` runs the pipelines with the
  other options given (so `--check` and `--dump` apply to them, and reloads
  keep them), `t` taps them, or `c`, `e` and `f` print the command line, the
  environment variables (one pipeline) or the file's pipelines on standard
  output once the screen closes.
- Tap, `t`: runs the pipelines in this process as `r` would, without the
  status reporter, and opens the live view. It runs for real: listeners
  bind, dialers connect and log in, file sinks write.
  - The terminal stays the screen's: a console sink writing to it runs as a
    null sink with its id, and the view shows what it would print; a console
    source needs piped input (`cmd | lw -T`); lw's own log, when it writes to
    the terminal, shows in the view as source `lw`; a password the terminal
    would be asked for is asked in a masked dialog.
  - Leaving the view keeps the pipelines running. `t` after an edit reruns
    them as a reload does: when the new ones do not build, the earlier ones
    keep running and the error chooses the part it names. `q` asks before it
    stops them, `r` and `o`'s choices stop them first, and `SIGTERM` or
    `SIGHUP` (an ssh session's end) stops them and closes the screen.
  - The bar counts the shown pipeline's entries in, filtered by the flow,
    dropped by sinks, and missed by the screen: the view never slows a
    pipeline.
- Live view: from 40 rows it sits under the diagram; shorter, it takes the
  screen while it has the keys. `t` or Esc gives them back to the diagram.
  - The canvas cursor picks its point, so the view opens on the first
    source: a source shows its entries, a flow stage (or the filter the
    inspector is on) what reaches it, the heartbeat its own, the sinks (or
    no part) what they got. `v` switches between all, what passed and what
    was dropped there, with no restart. lw's own log shows from info up at
    every point; `s` also offers it alone, debug too.
  - A row is the entry's time, level, tag, message and fields, read from any
    line shape: LogWisp's json, lw's own log, vif records, pino, zap, slog,
    docker, journald, ECS, GCP, or text after an RFC3339 stamp. A narrow
    screen drops columns; a dropped entry is marked; a rune a terminal would
    act on or draw wider than a cell shows as a placeholder.
  - Keys: arrows or `jk` move (up pauses, down onto the newest follows),
    PgUp/PgDn; `g` the oldest, `G` or `f` the newest; Enter the row's
    detail, `J`/`K` scroll it; `/` only rows matching a pattern, ignoring
    case when it is all lower case (clearing it, or a level, keeps the
    focused row in place, paused there unless it is the newest); `1`-`5`
    trace to error and up, `0` all; `s` chooses the point;
    `i` inspects the stage that dropped the row; `c` clears; `q`, `?`, `r`,
    `o`, `[` and `]` act as on the diagram.
  - The detail, beside the rows from 160 columns and under them otherwise:
    time and the stamp as written, level, origin, the verdict with a
    filter's patterns, the layout read, message, fields, and the payload as
    the sinks receive it, with escapes for what a cell cannot show.
  - It keeps 32 MiB of rows, each entry's message, fields and payload cut to
    16 KiB, and redraws at most every 100 ms while entries flow, at once on
    a key, never when idle. A closed standard output or error fails the
    write (logged) rather than end lw with the terminal raw.
- The screen draws on the controlling terminal: `lw -T > pipelines.toml` and
  `cmd | lw -T` keep standard input and output as data. lw never writes the
  file it starts from, but the shell empties a redirect's target before lw
  reads it: redirect to a file lw does not load.
- Color follows the `color` setting: `auto` the terminal and `NO_COLOR`,
  `always` the terminal, `never` none. True color and 256 colors paint the
  website's dark theme; 16 colors a console look on the terminal's own
  background (bright white text, its grey for hints, a blue cursor bar that
  keeps each tint); none the terminal's own colors, the cursor row one
  reverse bar. A text console draws with CP437 glyphs, and a terminal outside
  UTF-8 with ASCII.

## `lw auth`

Manages the credentials files of `auth.type = "scram"` listeners and logs in to
them as a viewer. See
[Password Authentication](security.md#password-authentication-scram).

```
lw auth add-user    --credentials FILE -u NAME [--password-file FILE] [--generate]
lw auth remove-user --credentials FILE -u NAME
lw auth token       --url https://HOST:PORT[/PATH] -u NAME [--password-file FILE]
                    [--unbound] [TLS flags]
lw auth stream      --addr HOST:PORT -u NAME [--password-file FILE] [TLS flags]
```

`-u` is short for `--user`.

- `add-user`: adds a user, or replaces its password
- `remove-user`: removes a user; refuses the last one
- `token`: logs in to an `http` sink or `http_chain` source and prints a
  bearer token
- `stream`: logs in to a `tcp` sink and copies its stream to stdout until
  interrupted

`lw auth COMMAND -h` lists a command's flags. The exit status is `0` on
success, `1` on failure and `2` on a usage error.

**`add-user`** creates the credentials file, with a fresh `decoy_key`, when it
does not exist or is empty (create it empty first to choose its owner). The
password comes from `--password-file` when that file exists (at least 8 bytes;
one trailing line break is trimmed; `/dev/tty` asks). Otherwise a random
26-character password (130 bits) is generated and written to `--password-file`,
or printed once to stdout when there is none. Replacing an existing user's
password needs an existing `--password-file` or `--generate`, so a mistyped path
cannot replace a working password; `--generate` always generates, overwriting
`--password-file`. New users take the file's existing Argon2 profile.

Both file commands rewrite atomically (a temporary file in the same directory
as the file, or a symlink's target, then a rename), create files `0600`, keep an
existing file's mode and owner, and refuse to write anything the daemon would
not load. A change that cannot keep the owner fails: run it as root or as the
owner. A symlink to a missing file is refused: create the target first.
Neither touches a running LogWisp: send `SIGHUP`, since `auto_reload` does not
watch the credentials file.

**`token`** and **`stream`** build the same TLS and SCRAM client as a chain
sink. `--password-file` defaults to `/dev/tty`: the password is asked without
echo; a file, `/dev/fd/N` or a pipe is read as by a
[plugin](security.md#one-user-without-a-credentials-file). TLS flags:
`--ca-file` (default: system roots) or `--pin-sha256` (the `tls.pin_sha256` a
self-signed listener logs), `--server-name` (default: the host), and
`--cert-file` / `--key-file` for a listener with `tls.client_auth`. There is no
flag to skip verification: an unverified server could relay the login. Redirects are not followed. `--unbound` logs in to an `http` sink behind
a TLS-terminating proxy (`auth.trusted_proxies`), still pinning the proxy's
certificate across the two requests; only then may `--url` carry the path the
proxy mounts LogWisp at. `stream` exits `0` on `SIGINT` or `SIGTERM`, and `1`
when the server ends the stream (a reload or shutdown).

Addresses, as for the plugins ([Networking](networking.md#address-family)):

- An IPv6 address goes in brackets: `--addr [::1]:PORT`,
  `--url https://[::1]:PORT`; in a URL a link-local zone is escaped,
  `https://[fe80::1%25eth0]:PORT`.
- The dial keeps to the address's family; a hostname resolves.
- `--server-name` defaults to the host; an address, without brackets or zone,
  must then be among the certificate's IP SANs.

```bash
# listener host: a file the service user can read, users, then apply
install -m 0640 -o root -g logwisp /dev/null /etc/logwisp/users.toml
lw auth add-user --credentials /etc/logwisp/users.toml --user edge-01 \
  --password-file /etc/logwisp/edge-01.pass
lw auth add-user --credentials /etc/logwisp/users.toml --user viewer \
  --password-file viewer.pass
kill -HUP $(pidof lw)

# rotate: new password into the file; SIGHUP, deploy the file, SIGHUP the edge
lw auth add-user --credentials /etc/logwisp/users.toml --user edge-01 \
  --password-file /etc/logwisp/edge-01.pass --generate

# http sink status, with the token kept out of curl's argv
curl --cacert ca.crt -H @<(printf 'Authorization: Bearer %s\n' \
  "$(lw auth token --url https://HOST:PORT --user viewer \
     --password-file viewer.pass --ca-file ca.crt)") https://HOST:PORT/status

# follow a tcp sink, asked for the password
lw auth stream --addr HOST:PORT --user viewer --pin-sha256 sha256//BASE64
```

## `lw tls`

Makes ECDSA P-256 certificates for `tls` blocks. It never replaces a file
(remove one to replace it) and writes keys `0600`, certificates `0644`.

```
lw tls ca   --dir DIR [--name NAME] [--days 3650]
lw tls cert --ca-dir DIR --name NAME [--hosts NAME,...] [--server] [--client]
            [--days 397] [--out DIR]
```

- `ca`: `DIR/ca.crt` and `DIR/ca.key`, a CA that signs leaves only (path
  length 0). `ca.crt` is what dialers set as `tls.ca_file` and listeners as
  `tls.client_ca_file`; with `ca.key` it is a listener's
  `tls.issuer_cert_file` and `tls.issuer_key_file`.
- `cert`: `NAME.crt` and `NAME.key`, in `--out` (default: `--ca-dir`).
  - `--server` for a listener: `--hosts` lists the DNS names and IP addresses
    it carries, default `NAME` (`--host`, its earlier name, still works);
    `--client` for a dialer presenting a certificate; both may be given.
  - `NAME` is the subject CN, the identity `auth.type = "mtls"` matches.
  - Valid 397 days (the longest browsers accept), never past the CA. It prints
    the certificate's `pin_sha256`.

```bash
lw tls ca --dir /etc/logwisp/pki
lw tls cert --ca-dir /etc/logwisp/pki --name agg.example.org --server
lw tls cert --ca-dir /etc/logwisp/pki --name edge-01 --client
```

## `lw config`

```
lw config init [--out FILE]
```

`init` writes the annotated configuration that ships as
`config/logwisp.toml`, every option with its default, to edit and run. It
never replaces a file (remove one to replace it). Without `--out` it writes
`~/.config/logwisp/logwisp.toml`, the file lw reads without `-c` unless a
`LOGWISP_CONFIG_*` variable names another; with that file in place, lw
without pipeline options runs its pipelines rather than filtering stdin.
Any other path is run with `-c FILE`; lw prints which applies. `lw --dump` prints the
effective configuration instead, flags and environment included.

```bash
lw config init
sudo lw config init --out /usr/local/etc/logwisp/logwisp.toml
```