[ome-devel] Clean way to define log directory

[Hadrien Mary]

Thanks Josh. I will use the symlink method.

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Hadrien Mary

Ph.D student in Biology
Tournier-Gachet Team
CNRS - LBCMCP - UMR 5088

Université de Toulouse - Bât. 4R3B1
118, route de Narbonne - 31062 Toulouse


On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Josh Moore <josh at glencoesoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi Hadrien,
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Hadrien Mary <hadrien.mary at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does it exist a clean way to change the default log directory
>> (var/log) to another directory ?
>
> The assumption has been that anyone wanting to use a different var or
> var/log directory would do so via a symlink:
>
> $ mv var var.old
> $ mkdir /tmp/var
> $ ln -s /tmp/var var
> $ bin/omero admin start
> Creating /opt/omero/dist/var/master
> Creating /opt/omero/dist/var/registry
> No descriptor given. Using etc/grid/default.xml
> Waiting on startup. Use CTRL-C to exit
> $ ls /tmp/var/
> log  master  registry
>
>
>> For now user needs to modifiy two files: etc/master.cfg and
>> etc/grid/default.xml.
>>
>> Don't you think it would nice to set this only with "bin/omero config
>> se omero.log.dir" ?
>
> This isn't as straight-forward as it could be since each of those
> files is used during a different phase by Ice. If the symlink solution
> doesn't work for you, we can certainly investigate making this easier,
> most likely by modifying `bin/omero admin` itself.
>
> Cheers,
> ~Josh.
>
>> Best,
>> Hadrien Mary
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