Cluster & Weblogic logs

Question

Hi.,
          I have set up a weblogic cluster running from a shared disk. Currently both
          servers create their log files (Weblogic.log) in their directories on the
          shared disk. I would like the log to be on the local drive. When I try and
          change the file location with a fully qualified directory and filename,
          instead of creating the logfile on the local drive as expected, for some
          reason the fully qualified path is appended to the cluster directory on the
          shared disk.
          Is this a bug ?
          Eran
          

Answer 1

We ran into a similar problem and solved it by making the per-server
          directories underneath the cluster home directory symlinks to the local
          disk, rather than actual directories on the shared filesystem.
          So if your cluster directory is /cluster:
          /cluster
          /cluster/server1 -> /var/log
          /cluster/server2 -> /var/log
          /cluster/server3 -> /var/log
          The symlinks get resolved relative to the NFS client they're on - so each
          server ends up writing its logs to local disk at /var/log. The drawback is
          that your per-server properties files (if any) need to be on the local
          disks, rather than on the shared filesystem. But you could probably get
          around this by linking from /var/log back into the shared filesystem (not
          sure...we don't have per-server props files).
          Ideally I'd rather be able to just give the logfile a fully-qualified
          pathname rather than this weird symlink stuff, but this seems to work...
          Mike Benham <[email protected]> wrote in message
          news:[email protected]...
          >
          > Yes this is a bug that has been identified. We should accept both
          > fully qualified and relative path names. It should be fixed in the next
          > maintenance release, but I suppose you could hack functionality by using
          > relative pathnames until then:
          > "../../../../dir/outside/of/weblogic/install" =)
          >
          > - Mike
          >
          >
          >
          > Jean-François ESPERET wrote:
          > >
          > > Eran Shtiegman a écrit :
          > >
          > > > Hi.,
          > > >
          > > > I have set up a weblogic cluster running from a shared disk.
          Currently both
          > > > servers create their log files (Weblogic.log) in their directories on
          the
          > > > shared disk. I would like the log to be on the local drive. When I
          try and
          > > > change the file location with a fully qualified directory and
          filename,
          > > > instead of creating the logfile on the local drive as expected, for
          some
          > > > reason the fully qualified path is appended to the cluster directory
          on the
          > > > shared disk.
          > > >
          > > > Is this a bug ?
          > > >
          > > > Eran
          > >
          > > I've got the same problem and it seems to be a bug and I'll tell you why
          I think
          > > so:
          > > we're running Weblogic under Solaris 2.6 Sparc and when we put a fully
          qualified
          > > directory and filename (unix), it creates a directory starting with 'c:'
          . I
          > > mean it creates a MS Windows like directory into an Unix filesystem.