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Summary

Three bugs in how the node handles Xray's log output, found on a production node (v0.5.4, Xray 26.3.27, ~200k users). The same code is in v0.5.7 and dev.

1. "log": {"access": "none"} does not turn the access log off. Config.ToBytes() clears access and error before starting Xray, "none" included. Xray reads an empty value as "log to stdout", so every connection is still logged and streamed to the panel.
2. "none" is opened as a file. Core.Start passes the configured value to logger.SetLogFile, and openLogFile only skips "". With "access": "none", the node appended every access entry to /app/none in the container, with no rotation: 27.5 MB in the first 25 minutes on that node (~18 KB/s).
3. Traffic lines fail healthy starts. isStartupFailureLog looks for its keywords in every line Xray prints before its API answers, and clients reconnect during that window. Seen in production:
   • an access entry for a domain containing fatal (accepted tcp:…fatal…:443) returned failed to start xray: … accepted tcp:…. The node stopped a healthy Xray, and its users were offline until the panel retried about 40 s later;
   • at log level info, [Info] … proxy/freedom: failed to open connection to … lines failed the start the same way on three nodes during one panel restart.

Reproduce

1. Use a core config with "log": {"loglevel": "warning", "access": "none"} on a node that has traffic.
2. The node's logs in the panel still show from … accepted … lines, and docker exec <node container> ls -l /app/none shows a file that keeps growing.

Changes

• logger: add DisabledLog = "none"; openLogFile treats it like an empty path.
• backend/xray/config.go: ToBytes keeps "none" for access/error. Real paths are still cleared.
• backend/xray/startup_diagnostics.go: skip access entries and [Info]/[Debug] lines. Access entries are matched by the new isAccessLogEntry, which also covers rejected entries: Xray writes two spaces after rejected when there is no destination, so the existing "rejected proxy/" check never matched a real line. Real failures still match: Failed to start: …, panics, Warning/Error lines.

Tests

• New: TestToBytesKeepsDisabledLogs, TestSetLogFileTreatsNoneAsDisabled, TestIsAccessLogEntry, and new cases in TestIsStartupFailureLog (the false positives above, plus real Failed to start: lines that must still fail).
• Set up as in run-tests.yml (WireGuard integration tests not run): TEST_INTEGRATION=true go test ./... -v -p 1 gives 276 passed, 0 failed with Xray v26.10.31, and the TestCoreStarted race run passes.
• Also run with Xray v26.3.27, the version on the affected nodes: same results as dev. The only failure, TestConvertLivePartsUsesTheInstalledXray, fails on dev too, because that Xray still accepts the VLESS outbound the test expects it to refuse.

Not changed

A config without a log section still gets "loglevel": "info" from GetLogFiles(). Xray's own default is warning with the access log off, so these nodes stream every connection plus all Info lines. That may be intended, so this PR leaves it alone.

This replaces #123, which GitHub closed when its source fork was deleted.

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• Bug Fixes
  • The none setting now reliably disables access and error logs without creating files named “none.” File-backed log destinations continue to work as before.
  • Serialization preserves disabled log settings while clearing file-backed log paths.
  • Startup diagnostics distinguish startup failures from routine connection activity, including accepted or rejected connections and informational or debug messages, reducing misleading failure reports.
  • Startup configuration and listener errors continue to be identified as failures.

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The logger now treats "none" as a disabled log destination. Xray serialization preserves disabled log paths. Startup-failure classification excludes access, info, and debug entries.

Changes

Disabled log destinations

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Disabled destination handling logger/logger.go, logger/logger_test.go	DisabledLog is set to "none". openLogFile skips this path, and a test checks that logging does not create a file.
Preserve disabled destinations backend/xray/config.go, backend/xray/config_tobytes_test.go	ToBytes preserves disabled log paths and clears file-backed paths. Tests cover access and error log combinations.

Startup log classification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Access-log entry classification backend/xray/log.go, backend/xray/log_test.go	isAccessLogEntry identifies accepted or rejected access-log entries. Tests cover access entries and non-access examples.
Startup-failure filtering backend/xray/startup_diagnostics.go, backend/xray/startup_diagnostics_test.go	isStartupFailureLog excludes access-log entries and lines containing [Info] or [Debug] before applying its existing failure rules. Tests cover startup failures and non-failure examples.

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Change: Bug fix

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No merge-blocking issue is established. The changes address disabled logging and false startup failures, with targeted regression tests described for both behaviors.

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_{A rabbit checks the logs at night,
“None” keeps file paths out of sight.
Accepted, rejected—sorted with care,
Startup warnings stay in their lair.
The config keeps what it should retain,
And hops through tests without a file to gain.}

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backend/xray/startup_diagnostics_test.go: 1

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Add a [Debug] case to TestIsStartupFailureLog.

The [Debug] exclusion in isStartupFailureLog has no test case. Removing it would still pass every test, while Debug lines containing failed to open would be recorded as startup failures.

Suggested test case

 		{line: "2026/11/04 07:27:53.051118 from 198.51.100.4:54596 rejected  proxy/vless/encoding: invalid request user id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", want: false},
+		{line: "2026/11/04 04:48:07.229696 [Debug] [3000105832] app/proxyman/outbound: app/proxyman/outbound: failed to process outbound traffic > proxy/freedom: failed to open connection to tcp:203.0.113.10:443 > dial tcp 203.0.113.10:443: connect: connection refused", want: false},

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Review comment at @backend/xray/startup_diagnostics_test.go at line 114:
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