[CASSANDRA-17773] Incorrect cassandra.logdir on Debian systems

• Type: Bug
• Status: Review In Progress
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.x, 3.11.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 5.x
• Component/s: Packaging
• Labels: lhf
• Bug Category: Packaging - Package Distribution
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 3.0.20

Test and Documentation Plan

ci

• Assignee: Claude Warren
• Reporter: Eric Evans

Authors

Claude Warren

Reviewers

Brandon Williams, Michael Semb Wever, Stefan Miklosovic

• Created: 25/Jul/22 15:23
• Updated: 29/Jun/23 16:20

Description

The Debian packaging patches bin/cassandra to use /var/log/cassandra for logs, it does so conditionally however, only if CASSANDRA_LOG_DIR is unset. This occurs after cassandra-env.sh is sourced though, which also sets CASSANDRA_LOG_DIR if unset (to $CASSANDRA_HOME/logs). The result is that -Dcassandra.lodir is set to /usr/share/cassandra/logs on Debian systems.

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-13678 Misconfiguration in cassandra-env.sh does not report any errors.
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1950