Github user apiri commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi-minifi-cpp/pull/236#discussion_r161024930
--- Diff: libminifi/src/core/logging/LoggerConfiguration.cpp ---
@@ -110,6 +112,17 @@ std::shared_ptr<internal::LoggerNamespace>
LoggerConfiguration::initialize_names
if (!logger_properties->get(appender_key + ".file_name", file_name))
{
file_name = "minifi-app.log";
}
+ std::string directory = "";
+ if (logger_properties->get(appender_key + ".directory", directory)) {
+ // Create the log directory if needed
+ struct stat logDirStat;
+ if (stat(directory.c_str(), &logDirStat) != 0 ||
!S_ISDIR(logDirStat.st_mode)) {
+ if (mkdir(directory.c_str(), 0777) == -1) {
--- End diff --
How directory is handled here will not make this within the root of the
minifi deployment and will be relative to where the call is invoked from. So
if I perform a minifi.sh start, it will do so from the logs directory of where
I started and not within my minifi installation.
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