[IMPALA-3581] Change Default Minidump Location to /var/log/$daemon

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.6.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.6.0
• Component/s: Backend
• Target Version: Impala 2.6.0
• Assignee: Lars Volker
• Reporter: Lars Volker
• Created: 20/May/16 17:44
• Updated: 26/May/16 11:07
• Resolved: 26/May/16 11:07

Description

Currently the default minidump location is /tmp/impala-minidumps, which can be wiped on reboot on various distributions. We should consider moving minidumps to /var/log/$daemon/minidumps, together with all other logfiles of the daemons.