Where does Confluent's kafka-avro-console-consumer write its log files?

Question

I am running Confluent's kafka-avro-console-consumer as described in the quickstart tutorial:

kafka-avro-console-consumer --topic test --zookeeper localhost:2181 --from-beginning

However, I have created a separate user kafka to run this command. I get the error message

mkdir: cannot create directory '/usr/bin/../logs': Permission denied
log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/bin/../logs/schema-registry.log (No such file or directory)
[...]

I would rather not give the kafka write access to the entire /usr/bin directory. Where exactly is Kafka trying to create the logs directory?

Answer 1

The kafka-avro-console-consumer respects the LOG_DIR environment variable so if you set it, the log file will be written to this directory instead.