repmgrd Logging Stopped Unexpectedly

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sudha

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Sep 18, 2025, 7:42:31 AM (11 days ago) Sep 18

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Hi All,

I have a 3-node PostgreSQL 17 cluster with repmgr configured for replication and automatic failover. I have log_file configured in repmgr.conf to write to: /var/log/repmgr/repmgr.log
This was working fine for a while — I was able to see log entries every 5 minutes from repmgrd.

However, as of today, logs have stopped being generated on two of the three nodes.

Here are the steps I originally used to configure logging:
sudo mkdir -p /var/log/repmgr/
sudo chown postgres:postgres /var/log/repmgr/
sudo chmod 755 /var/log/repmgr/
sudo touch /var/log/repmgr/repmgr.log
sudo chown postgres:postgres /var/log/repmgr/repmgr.log
sudo chmod 640 /var/log/repmgr/repmgr.log
sudo systemctl restart repmgrd
sudo tail -f /var/log/repmgr/repmgr.log

Whenever the logs stop, I run: sudo -u postgres repmgrd -f /etc/repmgr.conf --verbose and the logs start getting generated again.

My question is:

What is the correct way to keep repmgrd logging continuously, so that I don’t have to manually restart the process whenever logs stop?

Any suggestions or best practices for ensuring continuous repmgrd logging (especially after reboots) would be very helpful.