I recently removed my HA log file located in /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant just to get rid of some old cruft mainly for troubleshooting. I created a new empty file (home-assistant.log) and set the owner to homeassistant and group to nogroup. The permissions are 644. However HA no longer will write logs out to this file. I don’t see anything in the console output if I manually start HA.
I did upgrade to version 60.1which did not help.
Any thoughts.
Running Ubuntu 16.04, and HA as homeassistant user and Python virtual env.
Thanks
Mark
Jus delete it and restart. HA will create a new one if it doesn’t find one.
That didn’t work in my case as it did not create a new file I did try this with the old version (58) and I am pretty certain I saw a traceback complaining that it could not find the log file. This was the reason for my attempt to created a empty file. However I did not see anything out of the ordinary with the latest version.
My boot start service is this:
[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
#User=%i
User=homeassistant
ExecStart=/srv/homeassistant/bin/hass -c “/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant”
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Could HA have created logs somewhere else?