[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-6475) Control nodetool history logging directory

["Brian Nixon (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Brian Nixon commented on CASSANDRA-6475:
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I'm using version 1.2.13 and expect the same error from 2.0. The attached error is thrown because the specific user running the tool does not have write permission on /. 

Write permissions aside, it would be a useful feature to be able to write the history logs to a common logging directory without having to change user_home.

Exception in thread "main" FSWriteError in /.cassandra
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.createDirectory(FileUtils.java:261)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.getToolsOutputDirectory(FBUtilities.java:627)
	at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient$CfAssumptions.<init>(CliClient.java:3047)
	at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.<init>(CliClient.java:156)
	at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.connect(CliMain.java:84)
	at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:249)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Failed to mkdirs /.cassandra
	... 6 more
	


> Control nodetool history logging directory
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6475
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6475
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Tools
>            Reporter: Brian Nixon
>            Priority: Trivial
>              Labels: lhf
>
> Nodetool history is logged to a directory based on the current user home. This leads to splintering of history with more than one user and, in one case, a failure to run any nodetool commands as the user did not have write access to their home directory.
> Suggested fix is to make the base directory for the history logging (both nodetool and cli) configurable. A way to disable the logging of these tools would also help.
> Reference:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5823



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