{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/collectd/collectd/issues/1272","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/collectd/collectd/issues/1272/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/collectd/collectd/issues/1272/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/collectd/collectd/issues/1272/events","html_url":"https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/1272","id":106551949,"number":1272,"title":"Unable to log metrics to file","user":{"login":"willemdh","id":6462991,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6462991?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh","html_url":"https://github.com/willemdh","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-09-15T13:11:21Z","updated_at":"2015-09-21T10:24:25Z","closed_at":"2015-09-21T10:24:24Z","body":"I've been trying all sorts of things, but I seem to be unable to get collectd working properly on CentOS 7. The goal is to try make it write metrics to InfluxDB 0.9.4. As I was not able to get that working, I tried configuring a logfile /var/log/collectd , but whatever I do, this logfile is not created.\r\n\r\nThis is my current config:\r\n\r\n\r\nHostname    \"servername\"\r\nBaseDir     \"/var/lib/collectd\"\r\nPIDFile     \"/var/run/collectd.pid\"\r\nPluginDir   \"/usr/lib64/collectd\"\r\nTypesDB     \"/usr/share/collectd/types.db\"\r\n\r\nAutoLoadPlugin true\r\nCollectInternalStats true\r\n\r\nInterval     10\r\n\r\nMaxReadInterval 86400\r\nTimeout         2\r\nReadThreads     5\r\nWriteThreads    5\r\n\r\nLoadPlugin syslog\r\nLoadPlugin logfile\r\n\r\n<Plugin logfile>\r\n        LogLevel info\r\n        File \"/var/log/collectd.log\"\r\n        Timestamp true\r\n</Plugin>\r\n\r\n<Plugin syslog>\r\n        LogLevel info\r\n</Plugin>\r\n\r\nLoadPlugin cpu\r\nLoadPlugin interface\r\nLoadPlugin load\r\nLoadPlugin memory\r\nLoadPlugin network\r\n\r\n<Plugin network>\r\n        <Server \"127.0.0.1\" \"8096\">\r\n                Interface \"ens32\"\r\n        </Server>\r\n</Plugin>\r\n\r\nInclude \"/etc/collectd.d\""}}