[ACCUMULO-2372] Use POSIX logger for STDERR and STDOUT

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
• Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
• Created: 14/Feb/14 19:37
• Updated: 11/Oct/18 04:01
• Resolved: 11/Oct/18 04:01

Description

Instead of piping STDOUT and STDERR to *.out and *.err files in our launch scripts, we should pipe to the POSIX cli logger (/usr/bin/logger) to log to the system logging facility at the desired log level.

Incorporating the system logging facilities is useful for system administrators for troubleshooting and/or auditing. More integration with external logging facilities also means that we reduce our responsibility to maintain/manage the resulting logs to avoid problems (like filling up the local file system with logs), deferring that to utilities dedicated to that responsibility.

The command-line options used for /usr/bin/logger should be enough to associate the logs with the particular process.

(NOTE: Log4j can also be configured to use the system log facility, but that should be done through log4j configuration, with the appropriate log appender.)

Issue Links

• relates to: ACCUMULO-2287 Logs are overwritten upon restart
• relates to: ACCUMULO-4588 Simplify Accumulo logging configuration
• links to: gist to split stderr and stdout