# Ignition Wrapper Stopped - How to Restart?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-wrapper-stopped-how-to-restart/75416>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [June 22, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-wrapper-stopped-how-to-restart/75416 "2023-06-22T18:47:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![BryanB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@BryanB](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/BryanB)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-wrapper-stopped-how-to-restart/75416/1 "2023-06-22T18:47:37Z")

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I just looked at my wrapper.log file and noticed that it stopped logging in March. How do I get it going again? The Gateway log from the website are still updating.

This is v8.1.26 running in Debian 10.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-wrapper-stopped-how-to-restart/75416/2 "2023-06-22T19:17:57Z")

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Did you restore a backup that puts logs somewhere else? (The default location in ignition.conf has changed.)

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**Author:** ![BryanB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@BryanB](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/BryanB)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-wrapper-stopped-how-to-restart/75416/3 "2023-06-22T19:55:58Z")

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Good call. I have 100 wrapper.log files sitting in my /usr/local/bin/ignition directory. The _ignition.conf_ file is pointing to _/var/log/ignition_ for some reason (believe that the logs used to be there in older versions). That directory doesn't actually exist so there are probably some write permissions at play there.

Looking at the logs, it looks like it can't find the wrapper directory specified in the _ignition.conf_ file, and then defaults to the Ignition directory. It doesn't state it, but it looks like the default value for the number of files to keep is 100.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/4/24ff201d012d5d1dbfed37e761a44887ef620c70.png)

Before:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/1/e110e46af5fbf664ce570015cd2e43c5e9edb44c.png)

I'll update _ignition.conf_ to point to _logs/wrapper.log_, restart the Gateway, and everything should be back as expected.

Thank you!