I’ve installed guacamole using linode, not on a machine. It all runs in the
cloud. Video that I followed to install it:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gsvS2M5knOw<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsvS2M5knOw>
Thanks,
Dean
On Nov 16, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:54 PM Dean Jones _ Student - CarrollMS
<dbjon...@students.wcpss.net<mailto:dbjon...@students.wcpss.net>> wrote:
I'm stupid, I don't know how to access the log files or confirm that guacd is
running, could you show me?
I very much doubt that you are stupid :-).
I guess a first, starting question would be: how is Guacamole installed at your
site? Are you running the Docker containers for it, or have you (or someone
else) installed it natively? If you're using Docker, then the "docker logs"
command can help you retrieve the logs for a particular container. So, you'd
use "docker container ls" to show the running containers, and then "docker
container logs" with the the container ID or name to show the logs. It should
be pretty easy to identify which container runs Guacamole Client and which one
runs Guacamole server (guacd), and you can display the logs for those and see
if you can spot anything.
If you're not using Docker, then you probably have installed Guacamole
natively, and you'll need to look at the various components. Guacamole Server,
or guacd, is a normal system executable, and you should be able to see it
running with some sort of command like "ps -ef|grep guacd". If that output
returns nothing, or only returns the line for the "grep guacd" command, then
you need to start guacd by, first, figuring out where it's installed, and then
running it with /path/to/sbin/guacd. Logs for guacd are normally written to
syslog or journald, the normal Linux logging facilities, so you can look for
output from guacd wherever the normal system logs are kept. In more
"traditional" systems this would be /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog - many
more "modern" distributions have moved over to journald, and the output is in
"journalctl".
For Guacamole Client, when installed natively, you should see a Java process
running the Tomcat (or Jboss, if that's the app server of choice) application
server, and the log files can be stored in a wide variety of places. Sometimes
Tomcat writes its output to Syslog/Journald, so it'd be in the same place as
guacd (/var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, and/or "journalctl"), but often
times Tomcat has its own log file - /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out, or in the
"logs" directory under the Tomcat install folder. Again, this very much depends
on how you've installed Tomcat as to where that is, so if you're still
struggling, just post back here with as much detail as you can on how Guacamole
got installed to its current state, and I'm sure we can help you out.
Finally, if you haven't, already, I'd recommend taking your time to read
through the manual, particularly the first few chapters that describe
architecture and installation of Guacamole, as I think this will help you in
determining where some of these things live in your current installation.
Don't hesitate to post back, here, with any further questions!
-Nick
