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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