If --log_dir is not specified nothing is written to disk.
➜ build git:(master) ✗ ./bin/mesos-master.sh --help
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--log_dir=VALUE Location to put log files (no default, nothing
is written to disk unless specified;
does not affect logging to stderr)
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@vinodkone
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Jim Freeman <[email protected]>wrote:
> So if you don't supply --log_dir, then logs go in the /tmp executor
> sandbox?
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> *From:* Benjamin Mahler [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:45 AM
> *To:* [email protected]; Jim Freeman
> *Subject:* Re: Mesos logging configuration questions
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> I'm afraid that document is out of date, please ignore the comments
> related to MESOS_HOME in the interim of us fixing that document.
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-934
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> --log_dir is a parameter of the mesos-master and mesos-slave binaries.
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> The directory you linked is to an executor sandbox, the note about
> MESOS_HOME/work is no longer correct.
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> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jim Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Referring to
> http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/logging-and-debugging/ :
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> I have not set MESOS_HOME, so it should default per the doc.
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> 1) Doc says "Mesos uses the Google Logging library and writes logs to
> MESOS_HOME/logs by default, where MESOS_HOME is the location where Mesos is
> installed."
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> How do I determine where Mesos is installed? The 'make' put Mesos files
> in various places.
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> I do see mesos-log.* files directly in /tmp (not in a */logs directory)
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> 2) Doc says "The log directory can be *configured *using the log_dir
> parameter."
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> log_dir parameter to what? 'configured' is a web link that might tell me,
> but it links to a nonexistent web page.
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> 3) Doc says "Frameworks that run on Mesos have their output stored to a
> "work" directory on each machine. By default, this is MESOS_HOME/work."
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> Yet I only find stderr and stdout text files in paths like this (note
> there is no "work" component"):
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> /tmp/mesos/slaves/201401131343-16842879-5050-5210-0/frameworks/201401131343-16842879-5050-5210-0000/executors/default/runs/43bf587e-63df-4f26-b698-ab5c9e8ed385
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