Configure error file for archive packages (#29129)

This is a follow up to a previous change which set the error file path
for the package distributions. The observation here is that we always
set the working directory of Elasticsearch to the root of the
installation (i.e., Elasticsearch home). Therefore, we can specify the
error file path relative to this directory and default it to the logs
directory, similar to the package distributions.
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Jason Tedor 2018-03-18 15:33:17 -04:00 committed by GitHub
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'error.file': [
'deb': "-XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/elasticsearch/hs_err_pid%p.log",
'rpm': "-XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/elasticsearch/hs_err_pid%p.log",
'def': "#-XX:ErrorFile=/error/file/path"
'def': "-XX:ErrorFile=logs/hs_err_pid%p.log"
],
'stopping.timeout': [

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[[error-file-path]]
=== JVM fatal error logs
The <<rpm,RPM>> and <<deb,Debian>> package distributions default to configuring
the JVM to write fatal error logs to `/var/lib/elasticsearch`; these are logs
produced by the JVM when it encounters a fatal error (e.g., a segmentation
fault). If this path is not suitable for receiving logs, you should modify the
entry `-XX:ErrorFile=/var/lib/elasticsearch/hs_err_pid%p.log` in
By default, Elasticsearch configures the JVM to write fatal error logs
to the default logging directory (this is `/var/log/elasticsearch` for
the <<rpm,RPM>> and <<deb,Debian>> package distributions, and the `logs`
directory under the root of the Elasticsearch installation for the
<<zip-targz,tar and zip>> archive distributions). These are logs
produced by the JVM when it encounters a fatal error (e.g., a
segmentation fault). If this path is not suitable for receiving logs,
you should modify the entry `-XX:ErrorFile=...` in
<<jvm-options,`jvm.options`>> to an alternate path.
Note that the archive distributions do not configure the error file path by
default. Instead, the JVM will default to writing to the working directory for
the Elasticsearch process. If you wish to configure an error file path, you
should modify the entry `#-XX:ErrorFile=/error/file/path` in
<<jvm-options,`jvm.options`>> to remove the comment marker `#` and to specify an
actual path.