From 5a10cd4736342160d93d2e1d5797b6cc6baebd0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julien Lepiller Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 11:51:12 +0200 Subject: gnu: services: Create logs directory. * gnu/services/web.scm (nginx-activation): Create logs directory so nginx can log its startup messages before it loads its configuration. --- doc/guix.texi | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/guix.texi') diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 0d334e302f..957ce2bab3 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -13316,6 +13316,15 @@ used to specify the list of @dfn{server blocks} required on the host and blocks} to configure. For this to work, use the default value for @var{config-file}. +At startup, @command{nginx} has not yet read its configuration file, so it +uses a default file to log error messages. If it fails to load its +configuration file, that is where error messages are logged. After the +configuration file is loaded, the default error log file changes as per +configuration. In our case, startup error messages can be found in +@file{/var/run/nginx/logs/error.log}, and after configuration in +@file{/var/log/nginx/error.log}. The second location can be changed with the +@var{log-directory} configuration option. + @end deffn @deffn {Scheme Variable} nginx-service-type -- cgit v1.2.3