Pacemaker error and warn log showing up in syslog rather than pacemaker.log

I created a ping check on pacemaker, like so:

pcs resource create ping ocf:pacemaker:ping dampen=5s multiplier=1000 host_list=127.0.0.1 clone

Used something other than 127.0.0.1 of course.

Here's the source code: https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/blob/master/extra/resources/ping

The ping check foresees an rc code of 0, 1, and any other.

Wanting to see warning and errors, I enabled debug:

pcs resource update ping debug=1

However, instead of logging to /var/log/pacemaker.log, these messages are logged to /var/log/syslog.

Articles like this are just descriptors: https://support.sciencelogic.com/s/article/3961

And this is outdated: http://www.beekhof.net/blog/2013/pacemaker-logging

There doesn't seem to be a way to set this. What am I missing?

EDIT: Most guides I'm finding on this assume CentOs.

On Ubuntu, it seems the pacemaker sysconfig it located here:/etc/default/pacemaker

Solution 1:

This happens because pacemaker inherits the corosync config in /etc/corosync/corosync.conf and this contains

to_syslog: yes

You could check if the pacemaker log is written to corosync.log, in this case you should have this in your corosync.conf:

logfile: /var/log/corosync.log

If you want to have a dedicated pacemaker.log you have to add the following configuration items to your /etc/sysconfig/pacemaker:

PCMK_logfile=/var/log/pacemaker.log

You can control verbosity with e.g.

PCMK_logpriority=warning

Copy the modified config file to all nodes of your cluster and reload pacemaker.