what's the difference between ```bin/pinot-admin.s...
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Josh Highley
03/10/2021, 3:08 PMwhat's the difference between
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bin/start-server.shk
Kishore G
03/10/2021, 3:21 PM
both of them trigger the same command. use pinot-admin as the entry point for everything
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Josh Highley
03/10/2021, 3:21 PMif I use start-server.sh it doesn't load our existing segments. If I use pinot-admin.sh there's no logging to pinotServer.log
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Kishore G
03/10/2021, 3:32 PM
https://docs.pinot.apache.org/basics/getting-started/advanced-pinot-setup see the tab "Using launcher scripts"
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Josh Highley
03/10/2021, 3:40 PMwe were using that method but it wasn't logging to pinotServer.log
Josh Highley
03/10/2021, 3:41 PMpinot-admin appears to use pinot-admin-log4j2.xml but I don't see it actually logging to the component log files
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Kishore G
03/10/2021, 3:44 PM
Yeah, I noticed that as well
Kishore G
03/11/2021, 3:33 PM
@Daniel Lavoie ^^
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Daniel Lavoie
03/11/2021, 3:39 PMThe recommended way would be to use
pinot-admin.sh StartServerJAVA_OPTS Copy code
export JAVA_OPTS="-Dlog4j2.configurationFile=<PATH-TO-LOG4J-FILE>"Daniel Lavoie
03/11/2021, 3:41 PMThis is how the Pinot helm chart starts the server: https://github.com/apache/incubator-pinot/blob/59d02c66af3ab828bb3f75c0f832d03db0917f1a/kubernetes/helm/pinot/templates/server/statefulset.yml#L60