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Konstantin Boudnik commented on BIGTOP-1754:
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Rob, but /var/log/<application> is the Linux standard way of doing these thing,
IIRC? So, basically admin planning the hosts provisioning is normally aware
about the situation and doesn't co-locate {{/var}} with {{/}} - a very typical
noob-admin mistake I've seen in the wild. So, what you're proposing is a sort
of convenient workaround to deal with such clumsiness, right?
Also, it'd interesting to see how we can implement it uniformly.
> Optional global for root log directory
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>
> Key: BIGTOP-1754
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1754
> Project: Bigtop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: debian, rpm
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Rob Leidle
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: backlog
>
> Original Estimate: 72h
> Remaining Estimate: 72h
>
> Right now most, if not all, Bigtop RPM packages are setup to log to
> /var/log/app where app is something like hue, hadoop-yarn, or hive. Often
> times systems are configured with small root partitions that can't handle
> this large degree of logging. However, it is very useful to have the logs
> always be in /var/log/hadoop-hdfs as this is an easy path to remember.
> The proposal is that we add a global variable for defining a logging root. So
> for example it could be defined as /mnt/log. If this variable is set then the
> directory will be created and a symlink in var log will be created. So in the
> case of hadoop-yarn:
> /var/log/hadoop-yarn -> /mnt/log/hadoop-yarn
> would be the symlink created. All RPM specs would be updated to support this
> global root logging location. For example in the hue RPM to define the log
> directory variable, the definition and symlink creation would be something
> like this:
> LOG_DIR=$LOG_ROOT/hue
> ln -sf /var/log/hue $LOG_DIR
> And of course if no LOG_ROOT was defined then the log directory /var/log/hue
> would be simply created as things currently work.
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