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Changing Vertica.log file location to other location

Dear Expertise,
I need to change the vertica.log file location .
How I can set the new location for this. ? in target location vertica process will write the logs.
Is it possible in vertica.?
Thanks in advance.
Mujeef
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Answers
The vertica.log file is "always" in the catalog path that you defined when you installed Vertica (-d or ‑‑data-dir option), or when you created the database (-c or --catalog_path options)
https://www.vertica.com/docs/latest/HTML/Content/Authoring/AdministratorsGuide/AdminTools/WritingAdministrationToolsScripts.htm
https://www.vertica.com/docs/latest/HTML/Content/Authoring/InstallationGuide/InstallingVertica/InstallVerticaScript.htm
Although it is possible to change the catalog path for an existing DB, you will need to create a support case for that.
Maybe a symbolic link will work for you?
Example...
Hi Jim,
Thank you very much for your detailed information on this.
If could also provide little more information on below use case :
1)It is possible to point vertica.log path to s3 storage, so Vertica process will right the logs direct into S3. ?
2) What if we mount /s3 bucket on the vertica node itself ,still it will support ?
3)Can it will also work for NFS ?
can you please here ?
Thanks for you time.
Mujeef