Thanks for your help Chuck and I have started to suspect the documentation a bit or something weird may be happening ~ > Did you miss this part of the doc? ~ "You would place a similar log4j.properties file in your web application's WEB-INF/classes folder, and log4j1.2.8.jar into WEB-INF/lib. Then specify your package level logging. This is a basic setup of log4j which does *not* require Commons-Logging" ~ Yes, I had done that even though I forgot to mention it ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Granted, even though I have done quite a bit of servlets coding using tomcat (pre. 4.1X) for production environments, I stopped coding servlets for some time already, but I don't think I would qualify as a noob ~ I have even dropped this conf issue for a while to give a fresh view and even carefully read both ~ http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html ~ http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/logging.html ~ to see if there were something missing in the tomcat-6.0 logging documentation and I did notice differences in the docs: ~ 1._ TC_5.5.X wants you to download and place Log4J (v1.2 or later) jar in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib NOT $CATALINA_HOME/lib as is the case with TC_6. ~ 2._ TC_5.5.X wants you to download and place the commons-logging.jar (not commons-logging-api.jar) in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib with the log4j jar. For TC_6 you should build extras.xml ant build from TC source and replace $CATALINA_HOME/bin/tomcat-juli.jar with output/extras/tomcat-juli.jar, as well as place output/extras/tomcat-juli-adapters.jar in $CATALINA_HOME/lib. ~ which I did ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/bin# ls -l tomcat-juli*.* -rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 43522 Dec 7 18:10 tomcat-juli.jar -rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 17508 Jul 19 23:20 tomcat-juli.old.jar~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/bin# md5sum tomcat-juli*.* a3cf056cefe384c33f65a73c18277b85 tomcat-juli.jar 026e9dd179d54dd826fa0ecd485a60fc tomcat-juli.old.jar~ ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib# md5sum tomcat-juli*.* 881f04ebfe539cb9a17499a00ea37700 tomcat-juli-adapters.jar ~ // __ I did include log4j-1.2.8.jar in the webapp's /WEB-INF/lib directory and went as far as using the same log4j-1.2.8.jar in {$catalina.home}/conf ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -l /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib/log4j*.* -rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 358085 Dec 7 18:10 /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib/log4j-1.2.12.jar~ -rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 352668 Feb 20 2003 /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar -rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 546 Dec 8 06:32 /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib/log4j.properties [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# md5sum /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib/log4j*.* 223504f742addd3f631ed8bdf689f1c9 /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib/log4j-1.2.12.jar~ 18a4ca847248e5b8606325684342701c /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar 046c0cdd041de8ad4e8c4335e4d33eab /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib/log4j.properties ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -l /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/webapps02/fileupload/WEB-INF/lib/log4j*.* -rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 352668 Feb 20 2003 /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/webapps02/fileupload/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# md5sum /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/webapps02/fileupload/WEB-INF/lib/log4j*.* 18a4ca847248e5b8606325684342701c /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/webapps02/fileupload/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar ~ // __ Here is my {$catalina.home}/lib/log4j.properties ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/lib/log4j.properties log4j.rootLogger=debug, R log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.R.File=/media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/logs/tomcat.log log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=10MB log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=10 log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina=DEBUG, R
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]=DEBUG, R log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core=DEBUG, R log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.session=DEBUG, R ~ // __ and my web apps logging conf ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/webapps02/fileupload/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties log4j.rootLogger=debug, UpFl log4j.appender.UpFl=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.UpFl.File=/media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/logs/tc-6.0.14_fileupload.log log4j.appender.UpFl.MaxFileSize=10MB log4j.appender.UpFl.MaxBackupIndex=10 log4j.appender.UpFl.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.UpFl.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina=DEBUG, UpFl log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]=DEBUG, UpFl log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core=DEBUG, UpFl log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.session=DEBUG, UpFl ~ // __ I also declared swallowOutput="true" in my /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/webapps02/fileupload/META-INF/context.xml file: ~ <Context path="/fileupload" docBase="/media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/webapps02/fileupload" reloadable="true" crossContext="true" swallowOutput="true"> </Context> ~ // __ I don't think it relates to the OS but here is what my system is based on: ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a Linux Knoppix 2.6.19 #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 17 22:01:07 CET 2006 i686 GNU/Linux ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# JAVA_HOME=/media/sdc2/inst/JAVA/jdk1.6.0_03 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# export JAVA_HOME [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# java -version java version "1.6.0_03" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode, sharing) ~ /dev/sdc2 on /media/sdc2 type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) /dev/sdc5 on /media/sdc5 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=1000,gid=1000) ~ Logging from /lib/log4j.properties in /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/logs/tomcat.log is working fine but not for the webapp. No file is created in the defined logs directory System.out.println("...") is not working either and I can not see any errors in /media/sdc5/tc-6.0.14/logs/tc-6.0.14_fileupload.log ~ How can I fix this annoying problem? ~ Thank you lbrtchx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]