Github user mikewalch commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/223#discussion_r103702937
--- Diff: assemble/conf/log4j-service.properties ---
@@ -13,43 +13,47 @@
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
-## Log4j 1.2 file that configures logging for all Accumulo services
(Master, TabletServer, GC & Tracer) except Monitor
+## Log4j 1.2 file that configures logging for all Accumulo services
(Master, TabletServer, GC, and Tracer) except Monitor
## The system properties referenced below are configured by accumulo-env.sh
-## Write out INFO and higher to log file
+## Define a log file appender
log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
-log4j.appender.file.File=${accumulo.log.dir}/${accumulo.service.id}.log
+log4j.appender.file.File=${accumulo.log.dir}/${accumulo.application}.log
log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=100MB
log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=10
log4j.appender.file.Threshold=INFO
log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%-8c{2}] %-5p:
%m%n
-## Forwards Accumulo messages at WARN or higher to Accumulo Monitor
-log4j.appender.monitor=org.apache.accumulo.start.util.AsyncSocketAppender
-log4j.appender.monitor.RemoteHost=${accumulo.monitor.host}
-log4j.appender.monitor.Port=${accumulo.monitor.log.port}
-log4j.appender.monitor.Application=${accumulo.service.id}
+## Define an appender to send important logs to the the primary Accumulo
Monitor
+## The primary monitor is the one currently holding a shared lock in
ZooKeeper,
+## and is typically the one that started first.
+log4j.appender.monitor=org.apache.accumulo.monitor.util.AccumuloMonitorAppender
log4j.appender.monitor.Threshold=WARN
-## Configures Audit logs which are OFF by default.
+## Uncomment to define a log file appender for audit logs
#log4j.appender.audit=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
-#log4j.appender.audit.File=${accumulo.log.dir}/${accumulo.audit.log}
+#log4j.appender.audit.File=${accumulo.log.dir}/${accumulo.application}.audit
--- End diff --
I am OK with this but it changes behaviour of audit log. Previously, there
was one audit log per node that was shared by all services. This will create
an audit log for each service.
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