Service Logging

[askmike1]

Is there a way to have the system service (/etc/init.d/vault) send its output to a log file?

[legal90]

It should work already. Logs are sent to /var/log/vault.log by default.
https://github.com/johnbellone/vault-cookbook/blob/cf1d96306e72b0894a1355eb039a9c3f47e7074b/templates/default/sysvinit.service.erb#L67

[askmike1]

Interesting, it doesn't seem to be logging there for me by default. In fact my /etc/init.d/vault script looks more like the following:

#!/bin/sh
# Init script for vault generated by poise-service
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: vault
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Init script for vault
# Description: Init script for vault
### END INIT INFO
``
_start() {
` /opt/chef/embedded/bin/ruby <<EOH`
`require 'etc'`
`pid_file = "/var/run/vault.pid"`
`File.unlink(pid_file) if File.exist?(pid_file)`
`if Process.fork`
` sleep(1) until File.exist?(pid_file)`
`else`
` Process.daemon(true)`
` Dir.chdir("/var/run/vault")`
` IO.write(pid_file, Process.pid)`
` ent = Etc.getpwnam("consul")`
` if Process.euid != ent.uid || Process.egid != ent.gid`
` Process.initgroups(ent.name, ent.gid)`
` Process::GID.change_privilege(ent.gid) if Process.egid != ent.gid`
` Process::UID.change_privilege(ent.uid) if Process.euid != ent.uid`
` end`
` Kernel.exec(*["/opt/vault/0.6.4/vault", "server", "-config=/etc/vault/vault.json"])`
` exit!`
`end`
`EOH`
`}`

[legal90]

@askmike1 What hashicorp-vault cookbook version do you use?
The custom template for sysvinit provider has been added in v2.4.0 (#51)

[askmike1]

Wow, didn't even realize I was on an older version of the cookbook... thanks!

[lock]

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