# Zcash daemon logging settings?
**URL:** https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-daemon-logging-settings/1157
**Category:** zcashd client
**Created:** [August 9, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-daemon-logging-settings/1157 "2016-08-09T19:34:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@zL0k1](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/zL0k1)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-daemon-logging-settings/1157/1 "2016-08-09T19:34:41Z")
I am now running a node on my fitlet a10 in mining mode, is there some kind of log output to track what it is doing? If I launch it in an initscript, for example, I can set it up to put its’ output to a file. Well, I ran it for a minute without the -daemon parameter and it was mute, so I guess this means some setting has to be made to make it put some output to its controlling terminal.
Is there any feedback to see about the operation of the miner for the operator, or is the only output to the blockchain?
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### Author:  [@Voluntary](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Voluntary)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-daemon-logging-settings/1157/2 "2016-08-09T21:03:28Z")
I think what you’re asking is what zcash-cli can do. It has most of the functionality of the bitcoin equivalent plus some zcash specific arguments.
For a simple list of arguments, try:
> zcash-cli -h
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### Author:  [@str4d](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/str4d)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-daemon-logging-settings/1157/3 "2016-08-10T05:00:24Z")
By default, `zcashd` logs to `~/.zcash/testnet3/debug.log` when running on testnet. To output to console, run `zcashd -printtoconsole` or set `printtoconsole=1` in your `zcash.conf`.
Also useful: `-debug=[STRING]` to log certain debug info. For miners, `-debug=pow` can be useful to get an idea of what is going in (although it is of course inefficient to leave that enabled full-time).