GitHub user rnpridgeon opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4120
Make CONSOLE_OUTPUT_FILE configurable Even if Kafka is not configured without the console appender the CONSOLE_OUTPUT_FILE is generated. Allowing for this to be configurable offers more flexibility including redirecting `nohup.out` or the resulting redirect to `/dev/null` You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rnpridgeon/kafka patch-1 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4120.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #4120 ---- commit 7f675114c7d9b335ab38066f411a06735f74fdf3 Author: Ryan P <ryan.n.pridg...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-10-23T14:45:57Z Make CONSOLE_OUTPUT_FILE configurable Even if Kafka is not configured without the console appender the CONSOLE_OUTPUT_FILE is generated. Allowing for this to be configurable offers more flexibility including redirecting `nohup.out` or the resulting redirect to `/dev/null` ---- ---