[MariaDB discuss] Support for galera clusters

I can't find a place in the galera docs for a problem I'm having, so asking here. I have a 3 node mariadb Galera cluster (2 db's and an arbitrator node). On the arbitrator, when I start gardb manually and specify the log file as -l "/var/log/gardb.log" all is fine. If I try starting it as a service (RHEL 9) using the LOG_FILE in the config file, it always encounters "Failed to open '/var/log/gardbd.log' for appending: 2 (no such file or directory" I can find ZERO documentation on what's going on there." This is gardb version 26.4.14.r, installed as part of mariadb-server-galera.