# ES stopped logging

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-stopped-logging/21332>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 19, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-stopped-logging/21332 "2014-12-19T16:43:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![James\_4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@James\_4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/James_4)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-stopped-logging/21332/1 "2014-12-19T16:43:22Z")

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Topic says it....I'm not seeing any log files in  
/var/log/elasticsearch...ES is running, and I haven't modified anything  
since starting. Any way to track this down? Thank you.

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**Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-stopped-logging/21332/2 "2014-12-22T03:51:53Z")

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Hi ,

Can you do a

ls /etc/elasticsearch  
ps aux | grep Elasticsearch

Thanks  
Vineeth

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:13 PM, [digitalx00@gmail.com](mailto:digitalx00@gmail.com) wrote:

> Topic says it....I'm not seeing any log files in  
> /var/log/elasticsearch...ES is running, and I haven't modified anything  
> since starting. Any way to track this down? Thank you.
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-stopped-logging/21332/3 "2014-12-22T16:29:35Z")

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Thanks for looking. Here's what I have:

ls /etc/elasticsearch:  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 19 09:03 elasticsearch

ps aux | grep elasticsearch:  
elasticsearch 14022 56.5 9.6 21730152 1636876 ? Sl Dec19 2490:51  
/usr/bin/java -Xms256m -Xmx1g -Xss256k -Djava.awt.headless=true  
-XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC  
-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly  
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Delasticsearch  
-Des.pidfile=/var/run/elasticsearch.pid  
-Des.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch -cp  
:/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/_:/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/sigar/_  
-Des.default.config=/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml  
-Des.default.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch  
-Des.default.path.logs=/media/elasticsearch/elasticsearch  
-Des.default.path.data=/media/elasticsearch/elasticsearch  
-Des.default.path.work=/tmp/elasticsearch  
-Des.default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch  
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch

Thanks again.

On Sunday, December 21, 2014 8:52:02 PM UTC-7, vineeth mohan wrote:

> Hi ,
> 
> Can you do a
> 
> ls /etc/elasticsearch  
> ps aux | grep Elasticsearch
> 
> Thanks  
> Vineeth
> 
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:13 PM, \<[digit...@gmail.com](mailto:digit...@gmail.com) \<javascript:\>\>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Topic says it....I'm not seeing any log files in  
> > /var/log/elasticsearch...ES is running, and I haven't modified anything  
> > since starting. Any way to track this down? Thank you.
> > 
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-stopped-logging/21332/4 "2014-12-22T17:05:28Z")

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Yea I'm an idiot...I changed the path of the lost...all things fine  
here..thank you.

On Monday, December 22, 2014 9:29:35 AM UTC-7, [digit...@gmail.com](mailto:digit...@gmail.com) wrote:

> Thanks for looking. Here's what I have:
> 
> ls /etc/elasticsearch:  
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 19 09:03 elasticsearch
> 
> ps aux | grep elasticsearch:  
> elasticsearch 14022 56.5 9.6 21730152 1636876 ? Sl Dec19 2490:51  
> /usr/bin/java -Xms256m -Xmx1g -Xss256k -Djava.awt.headless=true  
> -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC  
> -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly  
> -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Delasticsearch  
> -Des.pidfile=/var/run/elasticsearch.pid  
> -Des.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch -cp  
> :/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/_:/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/sigar/_  
> -Des.default.config=/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml  
> -Des.default.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch  
> -Des.default.path.logs=/media/elasticsearch/elasticsearch  
> -Des.default.path.data=/media/elasticsearch/elasticsearch  
> -Des.default.path.work=/tmp/elasticsearch  
> -Des.default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch  
> org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> On Sunday, December 21, 2014 8:52:02 PM UTC-7, vineeth mohan wrote:
> 
> > Hi ,
> > 
> > Can you do a
> > 
> > ls /etc/elasticsearch  
> > ps aux | grep Elasticsearch
> > 
> > Thanks  
> > Vineeth
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:13 PM, [digit...@gmail.com](mailto:digit...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > Topic says it....I'm not seeing any log files in  
> > > /var/log/elasticsearch...ES is running, and I haven't modified anything  
> > > since starting. Any way to track this down? Thank you.
> > > 
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