Hello, thanks for the answer. I have tried already to modify the log4j settings, but got some weird errors. My /opt/PredictionIO-0.12.1/conf/log4j.properties file looks like this:
log4j.rootLogger=WARN, file # console appender log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.console.follow=true log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=[%p] [%c{1}] %m%n%throwable{0} # file appender log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.file.File=${pio.log.dir}/pio.log log4j.appender.file.ImmediateFlush=true log4j.appender.file.Append=true log4j.appender.file.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd-a log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p %c [%t] - %m%n # quiet some packages that are too verbose log4j.logger.org.elasticsearch=WARN log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop=WARN log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper=ERROR log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR log4j.logger.org.apache.spark=WARN log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=ERROR log4j.logger.org.eclipse.jetty=WARN log4j.logger.org.spark-project.jetty=WARN log4j.logger.akka=WARN I'm using a cronjob to gzip the generated log files, like this: 20 0,12 * * * find /var/log/predictionio/ -type f -iname "*.log.2*" ! -name "*.gz" -exec gzip {} \; After every cronjob run i receive an error message, that the file size changed while zipping. And indeed, some of the pio deploys are using the original, now deleted log files. java 3489 pio 21w REG 259,1 8223485244 267366 /var/log/predictionio/pio.log.2018-09-10-AM (deleted) java 3565 pio 229w REG 259,1 6805803 267367 /var/log/predictionio/pio.log java 3648 pio 21w REG 259,1 8223485244 267366 /var/log/predictionio/pio.log.2018-09-10-AM (deleted) java 3773 pio 268w REG 259,1 14781293004 256008 /var/log/predictionio/pio.log.2018-09-12-AM (deleted) pio 3487 0.0 0.0 11224 1736 ? Ss Sep10 0:00 /bin/bash -c cd /home/pio/UR/job1/ && /opt/PredictionIO/bin/pio deploy --port 8001 pio 3489 0.0 0.2 7020024 41048 ? Sl Sep10 1:33 \_ java -cp /opt/PredictionIO-0.12.1/conf:/opt/PredictionIO-0.12.1/lib/spark/pio-data-elasticsea pio 3565 0.3 1.9 4657440 317268 ? Sl Sep10 13:12 \_ /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java -cp /opt/PredictionIO-0.12.1/conf/:/opt/Pr pio 3642 0.0 0.0 11224 1796 ? Ss Sep10 0:00 /bin/bash -c cd /home/pio/UR/job2/ && /opt/PredictionIO/bin/pio deploy pio 3648 0.0 0.2 7020024 44400 ? Sl Sep10 1:30 \_ java -cp /opt/PredictionIO-0.12.1/conf:/opt/PredictionIO-0.12.1/lib/spark/pio-data-elasticsea pio 3773 7.9 6.2 4664636 997184 ? Sl Sep10 290:41 \_ /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java -cp /opt/PredictionIO-0.12.1/conf/:/opt/Pr Any idea why some of the deploys are using the old logfile? Thanks, Joe Juha Syrjälä <juha.syrj...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. szept. 12., Sze, 19:45): > Hi, > > PIO and UR seem to use log4j library for logging. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4j > https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ > > So you can specify a custom log4j.properties file which will do to file > rotation. Other option would be to use some external software that does log > rotation, e.g https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate > > For example with deployed engines: > nohup pio deploy -v my-engine.json --port 8001 -- --driver-java-options > -Dlog4j.configuration=file:/home/aml/my-stuff/log4j.properties > > log4j.properties file: > log4j.rootLogger=INFO, rollingfile > > # console appender > log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender > log4j.appender.console.follow=true > log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout > log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=[%p] [%c{1}] > %m%n%throwable{0} > > # rolling file appender > log4j.appender.rollingfile=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender > log4j.appender.rollingfile.File=/var/log/pio/my-engine.log > log4j.appender.rollingfile.MaxFileSize=100MB > log4j.appender.rollingfile.MaxBackupIndex=20 > log4j.appender.rollingfile.layout=org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout > log4j.appender.rollingfile.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p %c [%t] - %m%n > > # quiet some packages that are too verbose > log4j.logger.org.elasticsearch=WARN > log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop=WARN > log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper=ERROR > log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR > log4j.logger.org.apache.spark=WARN > log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=ERROR > log4j.logger.org.eclipse.jetty=WARN > log4j.logger.org.spark-project.jetty=WARN > log4j.logger.akka=WARN > > > > On 10 Sep 2018, at 16.22, József Hábit <jozsef.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > what is the proper way to rotate the log files generated by Pio/UR? > > Thanks in advance! > Jozsef Habit > > >