Configure log directory for RStudio Server 1.0.44

Question

I'm running RStudio Server 1.0.44 on CentOS 7.

According to the documentation, the server monitor logs are located at /var/lib/rstudio-server/monitor/log, but I'm unable to find them there. There is not monitor folder under /var/lib/rstudio-server folder, just body, conf and proxy subfolders, and there is not rstudio-server.log in the system. Maybe I missed something in the installation?

I would like to try setting the log folder manually, but I haven't found any way to set this property. Is this possible?

Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. Another user posted the same (unanswered) question in the rstudio forum.

Answer 1

In my CentOS 7 Docker container, and with my RStudio Server version 1.0.136, I've managed to access to the logs using:

journalctl -u rstudio-server

Some more logs can be found using

journalctl -f

In a more general point of view, there are many logs in the following folder: /var/log/anaconda

According to RStudio Server support, another solution would be to launch rstudio-server with --server-daemonize=0 in order for the output to be directly available on standard output & error.