Hi Chris,

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Von: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2019 16:41
An: users@tomcat.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Logging web applications with log4j 1.2

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> > Thomas,
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> > On 2/20/19 08:00, Thomas Rohde wrote:
> > > I've some basic questions regarding the usage of log4j 1.2 in Tomcat 
> > > 8.5.
> > > 
> > > We are running more than one web application in Tomcat. Each 
> > > application uses log4j via slf4j and ships the log4j.jar in 
> > WEB-INF/lib. The Tomcat itself uses JULI.
> > 
> > We are using a common log4j.xml file for configuration.
> > 
> > The file path is set as system property in CATALINA_OPTS as
> > follows: -Dlog4j.configuration=/path/to/file/log4j.xml
> > 
> > 1. Is this a valid setup or are there any side effects in 
> > initialization log4j by the different WebAppClassLoaders?
> 
> You are not using classpath-based config-file-loading, so it should not be a 
> problem[*].
> 
> > 2. We are observing weird things in rolling the files hourly. The 
> > timestamp of the log messages doesn't fit to the timestamp suffix of 
> > the file. Why does this happen?
> 
> Possibly conflicting time zones, somewhere? Because log4j.jar is in each 
> application's class loader, they CAN have different in-memory configurations.
No there are no different time zones in use.

> 
> [*] While this will work, why would you ever want multiple applications to 
> have their logging configuration all tied together?
> Why not separate the logging configuration into one config-per web 
> application? OR are you trying to unify all logging into the same file(s )?
Yes I would like to do that, but I'm not sure how to achieve it without putting 
the log4j.xml into the WAR file. Do you have any hint?

> 
> - -chris
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