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Claude Warren edited comment on CASSANDRA-17773 at 7/26/22 10:41 AM:
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The code works in Debian as per CASSANDRA-14306 which is not what the
documentation says because of permissions issues.
On Debian
{noformat}
CASSANDRA_HOME=/usr/share/cassandra{noformat}
which is only writable by root so the logs can not be in CASSANDRA_HOME/logs so
/etc/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh sets
{noformat}
CASSANDRA_LOG+DIR=/var/log/cassandra{noformat}
as would be expected. This is also the default set in /usr/sbin/cassandra.
I don't know what any other linux packaging does. However, I think that this
is a documentation issue and should simply be noted in the documentation that
on linux the logs are written to /var/log/cassandra
was (Author: claudenw):
The code works in Debian as per CASSANDRA-14306 which is not what the
documentation says.
Because of permissions issues on Debian
{noformat}
CASSANDRA_HOME=/usr/share/cassandra{noformat}
which is only writable by root so the logs can not be in CASSANDRA_HOME/logs so
/etc/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh sets
{noformat}
CASSANDRA_LOG+DIR=/var/log/cassandra{noformat}
as would be expected. This is also the default set in /usr/sbin/cassandra.
I don't know what any other linux packaging does. However, I think that this
is a documentation issue and should simply be noted in the documentation that
on linux the logs are written to /var/log/cassandra
> Incorrect cassandra.logdir on Debian systems
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-17773
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17773
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Packaging
> Reporter: Eric Evans
> Priority: Normal
> Labels: lhf
> Fix For: 3.0.x, 3.11.x, 4.0.x, 4.1-rc
>
>
> The Debian packaging patches bin/cassandra to use /var/log/cassandra for
> logs, it does so conditionally however, only if CASSANDRA_LOG_DIR is unset.
> This occurs _after_ cassandra-env.sh is sourced though, which also sets
> CASSANDRA_LOG_DIR if unset (to $CASSANDRA_HOME/logs). The result is that
> -Dcassandra.lodir is set to /usr/share/cassandra/logs on Debian systems.
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