Where do logfiles reside at? / Server not producing logfile despite showing on stdout it should be created

[diajowe]

New to using your docker image. I have experience with java servers but not bedrock ones.
My question is: As the log to stdout seems quite limited, I wish to see what is written in a log file. Specifically i am looking for failed logins due to whitelist mismatch.

My Podman Compose looks like this:

services:
  app:
    image: itzg/minecraft-bedrock-server:stable
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 19132:19132/udp
    volumes:
      - /mc_data:/data
    environment:
     - EULA=true
     - SERVER_NAME="MYSERVERNAME"
     - SERVER_PORT=19132
     - WHITE_LIST=true
     - ENABLE_CONTENT_LOGGING=true
     - CONTENT_LOG_FILE_ENABLED=true
     - DEBUG=true

and i also set content-log-file-enabled=true and content-log-console-output-enabled=true in properties.json

The server prints

[2026-05-25 20:58:27:698 INFO] Content logging to console is enabled.
[2026-05-25 20:58:28:312 INFO] Content logging to disk is enabled. Writing log to: ContentLog2026-05-25_20-58-28
[2026-05-25 20:58:28:313 INFO] Opening level 'worlds/Bedrock level/db'

Yet when i attach to the container and execute find find -type d -name "*Content*" -print and find -name "*Content*" -print it turns out empty.

Does the bedrock server simply not write logs on denied access due to whitelist (and never creates a logfile) or is it lost somewhere?

Thank you in advance!

[itzg]

I'm afraid I don't know. What you're asking is not specific to this image.

I'm guessing though that the log file, if it were to exist wouldn't contain anything extra. Besides, once you bring log files into the picture, you'll have to manage them to avoid using space.