Jason Tedor 0abf51af3d
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.
2018-03-18 15:33:17 -04:00

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[[error-file-path]]
=== JVM fatal error logs
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.