Hi, I just switched from Tomcat 5.5 to Tomcat 6 on an Ubuntu server. I'm trying to use log4j with this configuration:
log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.R.target=System.out log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n This was not working, so I searched documentation and learned about: <Context swallowOutput="true"> ... </Context> However, this swallowOutput doesn't seem to work. I tried putting this in several places: 1) in the sever-wide context.xml, which already exists and has a <Context ...> element. (On my system, this fil is in /etc/tomcat6). 2) There was no host-specific one, so I added the file /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/context.xml with the contents: <Context swallowOutput="true"/> Note that ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf is a symlink to /etc/tomcat6, so when the documentation refers to the locations for these files, I am pretty sure I know which ones they're talking about. 3) Just to exhaust all possibilities, in my webapp's META-INF, I created a context.xml file with the same contents. None of these three things had any effect. I tried it both with log4j and, to rule out that log4j was the problem, tried some System.out.println and System.err.println here and there. Near as I can this output goes nowhere. I would REALLY like my log4j output to go to localhost_<datetime>.log. Otherwise, I think I have to do some screwing around with the security manager in order to use something like the RollingFileAppender. I tried to follow http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html as best I could, including using tomcat-juli.jar from output/extras as well as adding in tomcat-juli-adapters.jar. I'm not sure if that really applies, but was wondering .... BTW the logger itself more-or-less seems to work. I determined this by doing something "wrong" just as a test: I called log4j's BasicConfigurator.configure() to see what it would do. I got log4j logging output, but I would get duplicate log entries the more times I reloaded my app. I quickly figured out that I need to get the logger as a static resource in whatever class wanted to log, e.g. private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(servletEventListener.class); Thanks, --Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org