[BIGTOP-1886] Kafka server can not create a log-cleaner.log file

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0, 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0, 1.1.0
• Assignee: YoungWoo Kim
• Reporter: YoungWoo Kim
• Created: 28/May/15 08:56
• Updated: 21/Jul/15 14:53
• Resolved: 21/Jul/15 14:53

Description

$ cat /var/log/kafka/kafka-server.out

log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: log-cleaner.log (Permission denied)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:221)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:142)
	at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:294)
	at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:165)
	at org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender.activateOptions(DailyRollingFileAppender.java:223)
	at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307)
	at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:172)
	at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:104)
	at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:809)
	at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:735)
	at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCatsAndRenderers(PropertyConfigurator.java:639)
	at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:504)
	at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:547)
	at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:483)
	at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:127)
	at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:104)
	at kafka.utils.Logging$class.logger(Logging.scala:24)
	at kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties.logger$lzycompute(VerifiableProperties.scala:24)
	at kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties.logger(VerifiableProperties.scala:24)
	at kafka.utils.Logging$class.info(Logging.scala:67)
	at kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties.info(VerifiableProperties.scala:24)
	at kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties.verify(VerifiableProperties.scala:197)
	at kafka.server.KafkaConfig.<init>(KafkaConfig.scala:32)
	at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:35)
	at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala)
...

The 'log-cleaner.log' should be

${kafka.logs.dir}/log-cleaner.log

. Like this:

log4j.appender.cleanerAppender.File=${kafka.logs.dir}/log-cleaner.log

This is fixed by KAFKA-1251 but 0.8.1.x does not have that.