# Log issue with upgrade from 5.6.8 to 6.3.2

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-issue-with-upgrade-from-5-6-8-to-6-3-2/154708>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 30, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-issue-with-upgrade-from-5-6-8-to-6-3-2/154708 "2018-10-30T18:29:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![wazzu62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@wazzu62](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wazzu62)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-issue-with-upgrade-from-5-6-8-to-6-3-2/154708/1 "2018-10-30T18:29:02Z")

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Trying to do an upgrade on centos7

I have path.logs defined in my yml file as  
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch

but logs seem to be written to /usr/share/elasticsearch/${sys:es.logs}.log

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![wazzu62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@wazzu62](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wazzu62)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-issue-with-upgrade-from-5-6-8-to-6-3-2/154708/2 "2018-10-30T20:24:28Z")

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Figured out my problem. Needed to copy the log4j properties file from the previous install

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-issue-with-upgrade-from-5-6-8-to-6-3-2/154708/3 "2018-11-27T20:28:24Z")

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Closed on November 27, 2018, 8:28pm UTC

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