# Setting name of Hail log file

**URL:** <https://discuss.hail.is/t/setting-name-of-hail-log-file/804>\
**Category:** Hail Query & hailctl\
**Created:** [December 12, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/setting-name-of-hail-log-file/804 "2018-12-12T19:32:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jjfarrell](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/jjfarrell/32/108_2.png) [@jjfarrell](https://discuss.hail.is/u/jjfarrell)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/setting-name-of-hail-log-file/804/1 "2018-12-12T19:32:57Z")

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Is there a way to specify the name of the Hail log file or the folder it is written to?  
I would like to write them to a logs directory.

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**Author:** ![tpoterba](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/tpoterba/32/61_2.png) [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/setting-name-of-hail-log-file/804/2 "2018-12-13T03:45:52Z")

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it’s one of the arguments in `hl.init` - [https://hail.is/docs/0.2/api.html#hail.init](https://hail.is/docs/0.2/api.html#hail.init)