Es 5.2 logging to /var/log/messages

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
#1

Hi

I have a problem with our es setup. Although we have configured the path.logs property in our config properties file, elastic continues to spew messages to /var/log/messages. The underlying file system ran out of disk space this weekend.

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Mar 20 10:48:08 server-name audispd: node=server-name type=CWD msg=audit(1490032088.959:175991376): cwd="/opt/elastic/elasticsearch/5.2.0/bin"
Mar 20 10:48:08 server-name audispd: node=server-name type=PATH msg=audit(1490032088.959:175991376): item=0 name="/data/elastic/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices/RYzTexEvQ3Cl2nq0VtTgJw/2/index/" inode=1441839 dev=fd:03 mode=040700 ouid=602 ogid=601 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 objtype=PARENT
Mar 20 10:48:08 server-name audispd: node=server-name type=PATH msg=audit(1490032088.959:175991376): item=1 name="/data/elastic/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices/RYzTexEvQ3Cl2nq0VtTgJw/2/index/_16sra_Lucene50_0.doc" inode=1442717 dev=fd:03 mode=0100600 ouid=602 ogid=601 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 objtype=DELETE
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Can someone advise how to force elastic to only log to the directory denoted in the path.logs property?

#2

How did you install elasticsearch and how are you configuring path.logs? What os?

#3

I used the elasticsearch-5.2.0.tar.gz distribution. The OS RHELRed Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 (Maipo), 3.10.0-514.6.1.el7.x86_64

I've set the path.logs property in a customized property file /opt/elastic/config/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml.
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path.logs: /opt/elastic/logs/elasticsearch
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The es node is started as follows from the bin directory:

./elasticsearch -Epath.conf=/opt/elastic/config/elasticsearch -p /opt/elastic/elasticsearch/5.2.0/bin/es.pid &

I can confirm that I do see several log files being written here as configured in the log4j properties file:

/opt/elastic/logs/elasticsearch/*

*.log
*-2017-03-19.log
*_deprecation.log
*_index_indexing_slowlog.log
*_index_search_slowlog.log

#4

Does anyone have any ideas on this one? We are running into disk space issues almost weekly because of this.

Thanks

#5

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