Looks like there is already a tkt for this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1204
thx jim On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Jimmy John <jj...@livefyre.com> wrote: > I tried that but it did not work. Dug a little deeper and saw this line > in bin/kafka-run-class.sh: > > KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS="-Dkafka.logs.dir=$LOG_DIR $KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS" > > changed the above to: > > KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS="$KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS" > > and it writes to my configured kafka.logs.dir > > > jim > > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Harsha <ka...@harsha.io> wrote: > >> you can configure it under /opt/kafka/config/log4j.properties and look >> for kafka.log.dir >> >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Jimmy John wrote: >> > How do I configure the application kafka log dir? >> > >> > Right now the default is /var/log/upstart/kafka.log . I want to point it >> > to >> > a different mount dir... e.g. >> > >> > /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /opt/kafka/config/server.properties >> > --logdir /mnt/kafka/kafka-app-logs >> > >> > But the above gives me errors : >> > >> > USAGE: java [options] KafkaServer server.properties >> > >> > >> > NOTE: these are application log dir , not the data directory. >> > >> > >> > Any recommended way to point the application log to a different place? >> > >> > thx >> > >> > jim >> > >
