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The Log Courier Suite is a set of lightweight tools created to ship and process log files speedily and securely, with low resource usage, to Elasticsearch or Logstash instances.
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default logcourier config location? #358

Closed tedder closed 7 years ago

tedder commented 7 years ago

I'm finally upgrading to logcourier2. Neither 'configuration' nor 'commandlinearguments' indicate there is a default config location for starting logcourier. In the 1.x era I used supervisor, but now that it's a legit service.. how should I handle this? I suppose I can put it in the /etc/default/log-courier file, but I might be overlooking a default location.

driskell commented 7 years ago

Sorry for the silence.

The default is looking up in the current directory. However, there's a way to compile which sets a default directory instead of the current directory. For my package builds I set it to /etc/log-courier/log-courier.yml IIRC. This I would recommend.

The /etc/default or /etc/sysconfig folders are generally for service startup configuration as opposed to actual runtime configuration, and are usually shell scripts. Those won't be read by the log-courier binary at all. If you use my contrib folder init scripts then they do reference this and you can set the USER there.