Oh you are right. I forgot that part. We have an ugly process that generates a log4j.xml that is used globally. All of the logs are globbed together into a giant mess.
As far as build time, we use maven and provided scope to exclude it. And most people here run a single instance of a single app. --Allen Yahoo!, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Gross [mailto:cogr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:01 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Tomcat Logging Jarhell > > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/initiate/v9r5/index.jsp?topic= > %2Fcom.ibm.inspinstall.doc%2Ftopics%2Ft_inspinstall_configuring_log4j_l > ogging_apachetomcat.html > > Having the logging items in the shared/lib means that the > shared/classes needs to have a log4j.properties file. > > I dropped one of my log4j.properties files into that directory, and I > was able to pipe log output there...anyone know how I can have a > separate one for each app, so that the logfiles will be readable and > not all mangled together? Outside of editing all the modules to use a > named logger... > > -- Chris > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Christopher Gross <cogr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Allen -- Is there something in particular that your users need to do > > for the common logging? Any changes in the file or the setup of > their > > web app? > > > > An example of the log4j.properties file from a WEB-INF/classes dir: > > > > log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender > > log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > > log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p %c - %m%n > > log4j.appender.A1.File=/test/logs/app/console.log > > > > log4j.appender.AppAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender > > log4j.appender.AppAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > > log4j.appender.AppAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p %c - %m%n > > log4j.appender.AppAppender.File=/test/logs/app/app.log > > > > log4j.rootLogger=WARN, A1 > > log4j.logger.opensearch=DEBUG,AppAppender > > > > -- Chris > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Allen Reese <are...@yahoo-inc.com> > wrote: > >> We have people exclude commons-logging, and log4j as our > installation provides them for you in a common lib dir. > >> > >> --Allen Reese > >> Yahoo!, Inc. > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Christopher Gross [mailto:cogr...@gmail.com] > >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 12:41 PM > >>> To: Tomcat Users List > >>> Subject: Tomcat Logging Jarhell > >>> > >>> Hi all. > >>> > >>> I'm trying to utilize the common/lib and shared/lib directories > on > >>> Tomcat 5.5.25. I have a few separate apps that were each using > many > >>> of the same JAR files, so I have been moving them down to shared & > >>> common lib (DB stuff went to common/lib, the apache commons modules > >>> & others went to the shared/lib). I was doing testing as I went > >>> along > >>> -- but I never went to look at the logfiles for my webapps. I'm > now > >>> noticing that they aren't getting anything anymore. I haven't > >>> changed anything aside from moving the JARs around. I'm using the > >>> Apache Log4j Logger in my classes. > >>> > >>> I have: > >>> shared/lib: > >>> commons-logging-1.0.4.jar > >>> commons-logging-api.jar > >>> commons-logging.jar > >>> > >>> common/lib: > >>> apache-log4j-extras-1.0.jar > >>> log4j-1.2.15.jar > >>> > >>> each app has: > >>> commons-logging-1.0.4.jar > >>> commons-logging-api.jar > >>> commons-logging.jar > >>> > >>> I'd like to avoid rolling back to how everything was, with a lot of > >>> repeated JAR files all over the place. Has anyone run into a > >>> similar problem and found a decent solution? > >>> > >>> Any help/tips are appreciated. > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> -- Chris > >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > >>> - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >> > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
