how do i move the location of the logs on Jira

[Kaushal Patel]

hi

Currently logs for jira are located /opt/jira/atlassian-jira-software-7.4.2-standalone/logs

i want to move to a drive that has much more space.

current storage on the server is 

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rhel_inettemplrhel7-root 18G 6.4G 12G 37% /
devtmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 7.9G 809M 7.1G 11% /run
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 497M 165M 333M 34% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_data-jira 177G 92G 85G 53% /home/jira

i want to move all the logs to /dev/mapper/vg_data-jira

thanks 

[Sreenivasaraju P]

Refer below link and try symbolic link 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-change-the-attachments-directory-on-jira-237569020.html

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That's attachments, not logs.  But the right answer for attachments.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Two options (both need you to stop Jira while you amend them)

• Dirty quick option - move the logs directory to the new place, then replace the logs directory with a symbolic link to the new place.
• Doing it properly - amend the log4j.properties file to point to a new place.  Move all the old logs (if you want to keep them).  See https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/logging-and-profiling-938847671.html for how to amend the file

Restart Jira and  it will log to the new place.

[Kaushal Patel]

ok found the file do i need to change all jirahomeAppender

log4j.appender.filelog=com.atlassian.jira.logging.JiraHomeAppender
log4j.appender.filelog.File=atlassian-jira.log
log4j.appender.filelog.MaxFileSize=20480KB
log4j.appender.filelog.MaxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.filelog.layout=com.atlassian.logging.log4j.NewLineIndentingFilteringPatternLayout
log4j.appender.filelog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %t %p %X{jira.username} %X{jira.request.id} %X{jira.request.assession.id} %X{jira.request.ipaddr} %X{jira.request.url} [%q{2}] %m%n
# re-enable when JDEV-33891 is resolved or improved
log4j.appender.filelog.layout.StackTracePackagingExamined=false
log4j.appender.filelog.layout.MinimumLines=6
log4j.appender.filelog.layout.ShowEludedSummary=false
log4j.appender.filelog.layout.FilteringApplied=true
log4j.appender.filelog.layout.FilteredFrames=@jira-filtered-frames.properties

log4j.appender.httpaccesslog=com.atlassian.jira.logging.JiraHomeAppender
log4j.appender.httpaccesslog.File=atlassian-jira-http-access.log
log4j.appender.httpaccesslog.MaxFileSize=20480KB
log4j.appender.httpaccesslog.MaxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.httpaccesslog.layout=com.atlassian.logging.log4j.NewLineIndentingFilteringPatternLayout
log4j.appender.httpaccesslog.layout.ConversionPattern=%m%n

or just

log4j.appender.filelog=com.atlassian.jira.logging.JiraHomeAppender
log4j.appender.filelog.File=atlassian-jira.log

to 

log4j.appender.filelog=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender

log4j.appender.filelog.File=/home/jira/logs/atlassian-jira.log

also will this work for the catalina.out

[Kaushal Patel]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- any chance you can help with the above ?