Hi Marc,
I think it's depends rather on "log.dirs" parameter. Because this parameter would prefer to use in more convenient case, "log.dir" parameter is secondary. logs.dirs: The directories in which the log data is kept. If not set, the value in log.dir is used log.dir: The directory in which the log data is kept (supplemental for log.dirs property) It's obvious that the "logs.dirs" parameter should be used preferably, before "log.dir". and the "log.dir" is just used to make sure that writing is possible at a place where rights are most often allowed. best regards, Adrien ________________________________ De : Marc van den Bogaard <mailingl...@neozo.de> Envoyé : mercredi 18 avril 2018 17:43:07 À : users@kafka.apache.org Objet : Default kafka log.dir /tmp | tmp-file-cleaner process Hey guys, when I look in the kafka documentation (https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/ <https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/>) the default log.dir for the kafka logs is /tmp. Could someone please tell me why? Because if you don’t change this you probably get some issues regarding the tmp-file-cleaner process which is running on most of the nix-systems and deletes files under /tmp (e.g. older than 10 days which were not touched). We already had some problems and segment files where removed which caused kafka to crash. So we changed this configuration so something like /var/lib/kafka/data/… I didn’t find anyone else with this problem nor information regarding this. Best regards Marc
