Examining eventstore service's standard output/errors on Ubuntu

EventStoreDB
#1

Forgive me if this ends up being a Linux newbie question, but I’m wondering how to examine the Event Store service’s output messages on Ubuntu 14.04, having installed Event Store via the Debian package method.

We have a VM where the ES service is starting but then immediately stopping, and the log folder /var/log/eventstore is completely empty. I tried to run /usr/bin/eventstored directly but it just gave me a readout of (the many) command line options.

If I could just see what initial error message got spit out (but not logged) hopefully I’d have insight into why Event Store won’t start on this particular VM…

#2

This is likely an invalid option in the configuration file or the address being in use.
Can you provide us with the output of running /usr/bin/eventstored?

#3

I don’t think anything goes to standard output (I’ve tried piping it to “more” and to a file - it’s empty); no matter what we do, it just dumps the man page for the command line options. And since I can’t page that with “more” I can’t tell if there’s anything at the top of the readout I need to see.

#4

In case it helps, here’s our /etc/eventstore/eventstore.conf

IntIp: 0.0.0.0

ExtIp: 0.0.0.0

IntHttpPrefixes: http://*:2112/

ExtHttpPrefixes: http://*:2113/

AddInterfacePrefixes: false

RunProjections: All

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#5

Please can you provide us with the result of running /usr/bin/eventstored, please include everything, from the point where the command was issued. I understand that it will include the numerous command line options, but I want to see everything from the point the command was issued up to where it stopped.

#6

As I feared, this was a Linux newbie issue. I realized that the man page output I was seeing was the standard error output, so as soon as I figured out how to send that to a separate file:

sudo /usr/bin/eventstored > stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt

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…as soon as I did that I could see the top of the error message - the important bit - and then it was clear we had a faulty config file. My bad: I did not post the correct config file in my reply above.

The actual config file had a duplicate key entry which, once removed, cause a normal start of Event Store.

Sorry about that, all…