Re: pgaudit log directory

On 18/11/19 9:56 μ.μ., Dave Hughes wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using PostgreSQL 10.5 on Linux (RHEL).  I'm new to administering PostgreSQL and recently installed pgaudit.  I believe I have it installed correctly and wanted to start playing with it to see
> how exactly it works.
>
> So while walking through a tutorial I found online, I saw where I can enter a statement in PostgreSQL, such as:
> ALTER SYSTEM SET pgaudit.log TO 'read, write';
> SELECT pg_reload_conf();
> Then after reading or writing to a table, you can then check "pg_log" for the audit entries.  But my issue is that I can't find the log file at all?
>
> In my main PostgreSQL directory (/work/PostgreSQL/10)I do have a file called "logfile", but there are no entries from today.  When I go into the pgaudit sub-directory (/work/PostegreSQL/10/pgaudit)
> I don't see any log file in there either?

pgaudit writes in the standard pgsql log.

>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Hughes

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