the user (metabase) is running it in a dir owned by metabase:
metabase 5865 1.7 7.0 5840272 1130828 ? Ssl Aug28 1:58 /usr/bin/java -Xms128m -Xmx2048m -jar /automation/metabase/metabase.jar
/metabase$ ls -la
total 179828
drwxr-xr-x 3 metabase metabase 4096 Aug 28 23:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 13 00:55 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 metabase metabase 3252224 Aug 29 01:07 metabase.db.mv.db
-rw-r–r-- 1 metabase metabase 70970 Aug 13 01:02 metabase.db.trace.db
-rw-r–r-- 1 metabase metabase 180799247 Aug 13 00:48 metabase.jar
-rw------- 1 metabase metabase 729 Aug 13 00:56 nohup.out
drwxr-xr-x 2 metabase metabase 4096 Aug 22 17:50 plugins
I’m happy to send on the syslog part of metabase starting, but there isn’t anything in there that i can see where it attempts to open a logfie.