https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-ve-accidentally-deleted-cloudera-scm-server-log/m-p/17980#M2769 It is likely that Cloudera Manager still has the file open and is writing<BR />to it though you have deleted the file itself. Try restarting the service<BR />and check if the file is written to<BR /><BR />$ sudo service cloudera-scm-server restart<BR /><BR /> Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:13:35 GMT GautamG 2014-09-02T06:13:35Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-ve-accidentally-deleted-cloudera-scm-server-log/m-p/17978#M2768 <P>I'm a newbie. I've accidentally deleted cloudera-scm-server.log, after I recreate the file, nothing gets written?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>How can I fix this?</P> Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:04:16 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-ve-accidentally-deleted-cloudera-scm-server-log/m-p/17978#M2768 gagabonar 2014-09-02T06:04:16Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-ve-accidentally-deleted-cloudera-scm-server-log/m-p/17980#M2769 It is likely that Cloudera Manager still has the file open and is writing<BR />to it though you have deleted the file itself. Try restarting the service<BR />and check if the file is written to<BR /><BR />$ sudo service cloudera-scm-server restart<BR /><BR /> Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:13:35 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-ve-accidentally-deleted-cloudera-scm-server-log/m-p/17980#M2769 GautamG 2014-09-02T06:13:35Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-ve-accidentally-deleted-cloudera-scm-server-log/m-p/17982#M2770 <P>Thx! yeah it works.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>It's now writing to the cloudera-scm-server.log</P> Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:20:34 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-ve-accidentally-deleted-cloudera-scm-server-log/m-p/17982#M2770 gagabonar 2014-09-02T06:20:34Z