Getting error on logs/access-web-logs/access-web-${sys:daemon.name}.log when running the Flux Example about hdinsight-java-storm-wordcount HOT 2 OPEN

Hi @thinklarge it looks like this is a side effect of Storm being developed primarily on Linux, and probably not heavily tested on Windows.

The default configuration assumes that there's a web log (I'm guessing the Storm web UI) and tries to log it. But the variable (${sys:daemon.name}) isn't being replaced, and some of those characters aren't legal in a Windows file path/name.

I was able to work around this problem on a Windows system by using the following steps:

1. Go to the directory that you installed the Storm development environment into.
2. In the log4j2 subdirectory, edit cluster.xml.
3. find the line that begins with <RollingFile name="WEB-ACCESS". Remove the string -${sys:daemon.name} from the fileName property of this line. This results in Storm creating a file named access-web.log, which Windows understands. Save the file after making the change.

One other thing that I noticed on Windows is that the Storm command doesn't send the output of the topology to the console. I tried with both cmd.exe and PowerShell. Instead, the output is logged to <storm installation directory>\logs\jar.log.

Can you give this a try and see if it works aroudn the error for you?

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Hi @Blackmist, I encountered the same issue and your workaround fixed the issue !
Thanks a lot ! :)

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