Running bitcoind no longer prints anything to stdout. It makes it seem like bitcoind is just hanging, when it is in fact running properly.
I expected to see some logs print to the console when running bitcoind not in the daemon mode.
No output when running bitcoind from command line. It just appears to hang, but is actually functioning properly.
0.16.2 from ubuntu ppa
ubuntu server
It never did, AFAIK? You need -printtoconsole for that.
It does when I build the binary manually on my Mac and run that. Is there a build flag that changes this behavior perhaps? I feel like everywhere else I run bitcoin it prints to console without the flag.
It seems the old behaviour was to not print to console by default ever. In #13004 it was changed to print to console by default if not running in the background. It's not in any release yet, but will be in 0.17.
Perhaps the versions you've compiled yourself were from the master branch?
Indeed, this is only on the master branch.
Ah ok that makes sense. I think previously I had always run it as a daemon and just forgot the default behavior.