Elasticsearch can't write to log files

Question

I would like to activate logs of elasticsearch .

When I run elasticsearch binaries, I realize that I have problems with logging : the configuration cannot be loaded !

Answer 1

I'm running elasicsearch with the user elasticsearch, so I used this command:

sudo su elasticsearch -c './bin/elasticsearch -d --default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch'

from the dir where elasticsearch is installed. Had to do:

sudo chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch .

in there though because otherwise it won't have write access to the log files. I don't know how this would work via the debian startup scripts, but this seems to work fine like this.