Where are my logs? Log files have stopped updating. DId they move?

[womble]

Running OH 2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, original install was 2.0 (i think).

For some reason my log files stopped updating back in Feb. Files I always used to reference were:

/var/log/openhab2/openhab.log
/var/log/openhab2/events.log

My Karaf console settings are:

openhab> log:list
Logger                                                      │ Level
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────
ROOT                                                        │ WARN
com.beowulfe.hap                                            │ DEBUG
javax.jmdns                                                 │ ERROR
org.eclipse.smarthome                                       │ INFO
org.jupnp                                                   │ ERROR
org.openhab                                                 │ INFO
org.openhab.binding.xbmc                                    │ INFO
org.openhab.homekit                                         │ DEBUG
org.openhab.io.homekit                                      │ INFO
org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.JettyServerWrapper │ ERROR
smarthome.event                                             │ INFO
smarthome.event.InboxUpdatedEvent                           │ ERROR
smarthome.event.ItemStateEvent                              │ ERROR
smarthome.event.ThingStatusInfoEvent                        │ ERROR

if the below is related, please can someone explain the resolution. I don’t follow what action needs taking.

Lost my log file last snap shot stop writing to files

Hi i updated my system and logging has stopped on my install files are not written check rights all ok any thoughts how to get it working again? Thanks

user@openhab:~$ ls -l /usr/share/openhab2/userdata/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2387 Feb 16 11:44 /usr/share/openhab2/userdata/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg
user@openhab:~$ cat /usr/share/openhab2/userdata/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg
# Root logger
log4j.rootLogger = WARN, out, osgi:*
log4j.throwableRenderer=org.apache.log4j.OsgiThrowableRenderer

# openHAB specific logger configuration
log4j.logger.smarthome.event = INFO, event, osgi:*
log4j.logger.smarthome.event.ItemStateEvent = ERROR
log4j.logger.smarthome.event.ThingStatusInfoEvent = ERROR
log4j.logger.smarthome.event.InboxUpdatedEvent = ERROR
log4j.additivity.smarthome.event = false

log4j.logger.org.openhab = INFO
log4j.logger.org.eclipse.smarthome = INFO
log4j.logger.org.jupnp = ERROR
log4j.logger.javax.jmdns = ERROR
log4j.logger.org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.JettyServerWrapper = ERROR

# CONSOLE appender not used by default
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%-5.5p] [%-36.36c] - %m%n

# File appender - openhab.log
log4j.appender.out=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.out.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.out.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%-5.5p] [%-36.36c] - %m%n
log4j.appender.out.file=${openhab.logdir}/openhab.log
log4j.appender.out.append=true
log4j.appender.out.maxFileSize=10MB
log4j.appender.out.maxBackupIndex=10

# File appender - events.log
log4j.appender.event=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.event.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.event.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%-26.26c{1}] - %m%n
log4j.appender.event.file=${openhab.logdir}/events.log
log4j.appender.event.append=true
log4j.appender.event.maxFileSize=10MB
log4j.appender.event.maxBackupIndex=10

# Sift appender
log4j.appender.sift=org.apache.log4j.sift.MDCSiftingAppender
log4j.appender.sift.key=bundle.name
log4j.appender.sift.default=openhab
log4j.appender.sift.appender=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.sift.appender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.sift.appender.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%-5.5p] [%-36.36c] - %m%n
log4j.appender.sift.appender.file=${openhab.logdir}/$\\{bundle.name\\}.log
log4j.appender.sift.appender.append=true
log4j.logger.com.beowulfe.hap = INFO
log4j.logger.org.openhab.binding.xbmc = INFO
log4j.logger.utterbollocks = DEBUG
log4j.logger.org.openhab.homekit = INFO
log4j.logger.org.openhab.io.homekit = INFO

[hr3 (Harry)]

Rename/delete the log-files und restart oH.

[womble]

Thanks Harry,

Renamed events.log and openhab.log and restarted the service. openhab.log was recreated, but so far nothing has been written to it.

sudo mv /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log.broken
sudo mv /var/log/openhab2/events.log /var/log/openhab2/events.log.broken
sudo service openhab2 restart
sudo reboot
 
user@openhab:~$ ls -lh /var/log/openhab2/{openhab,events}.log
ls: cannot access '/var/log/openhab2/events.log': No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 openhab openhab 0 Jun 22 15:14 /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log

[womble]

any other thoughts? I can’t fix all the other broken stuff without logs

[wborn (Wouter Born)]

Maybe this works for you as well:

Logging stopped after update to openHAB 2.2.0 Build #1010

Thanks Udo, looks i should have read this first However, iFixedit! and actually it was easy, just needed to go like: jarvis@JARVIS-MKII:~$ sudo mv /var/lib/openhab2/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg /var/lib/openhab2/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg.OLD jarvis@JARVIS-MKII:~$ sudo cp /var/lib/openhab2/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg.dpkg-dist /var/lib/openhab2/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg I’ll also post this in the linked thread in case others flunked like me… Only backdraft is that my nic…

[womble]

Yes ! that worked. Many thanks .

Every else is still broken, but i have a chance now…