Grant Henke created KAFKA-2407:
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Summary: Only create a log directory when it will be used
Key: KAFKA-2407
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2407
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 0.8.2.1
Reporter: Grant Henke
Assignee: Grant Henke
Fix For: 0.8.3
Currently kafka-run-class.sh will default the $LOG_DIR and create the directory
regardless of it's use. This can cause permissions issues depending on what
users are utilizing tools such as kafka-topics.sh.
Further down in the script there is logic to detect whether $KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS
is set. If it is not set this is assumed to be a tool call and the script sets
tools-log4j.properties which only uses the console appender. In this scenario a
logging directory is not needed. In all other cases $KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS will be
set and we can move the $LOG_DIR defaulting & creation logic there. For example
kafka-server-start.sh sets $KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS to use its own log4j.properties
file which respects the $LOG_DIR/kafka.log4j.dir setting.
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