Hi, I had trouble with this as well. The version of Kafka I'm running insists on using 'kafka/logs', so I create a soft link from there to the desired destination directory:
# kafka scripts hard-code the logs dir, so point that path to where we want the logs to be. ln -s $STREAM_BUFFER_LOGS_DIR kafka/logs -Ben On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:17 AM, hsy...@gmail.com <hsy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone has any idea how do I config the log4j file dir? > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, hsy...@gmail.com <hsy...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > Just notice kafka.logs.dir in log4j.properties doesn't take effect > > > > It's always set to *$base_dir/logs* in kafka-run-class.sh > > > > LOG_DIR=$base_dir/logs > > KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS="-Dkafka.logs.dir=$LOG_DIR $KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS" > > > > Best, > > Siyuan > > >
