Nomad will only log to /var/log/messages (RHEL7)

[zswanson]

I'm trying to get the role to configure nomad to log in /var/log/nomad rather than /var/log/messages, just for convenience of monitoring the cluster logs. I've set group_vars for my nomad group to:

nomad_syslog_enable: false

and otherwise am using the default location for logging. Regardless of the syslog setting though, all log messages from nomad are written to /var/log/messages rather than the default location specified in the role as:

nomad_log_dir: /var/log/nomad

[brianshumate]

Hi!

Unfortunatley, the nomad_log_dir configuration was invalid.

Nomad logs only to stdout/stderr in a 12 factor app style, which is captured by the systemd journal by default on most Linux distributions including RHEL7.

Nomad doesn't actually have configuration to specify logging to a static file location so I've removed the non-functional configuration and related documentation and apologies for the confusion there!