+0.5 The disadvantage is that it's harder to filter xwiki specific logs. Stdout is usually more verbose and might also contains logs from other deployed apps.
Florin Ciubotaru On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'd like to propose removing the log to xwiki.log by default in our > log4j.properties file. > > The rationale is: > * This is causing problems with a lot of users since by default we log in > the current directory and there are lots of cases when users start xwiki > from a directory where you don't have correct permissions > * We don't control where xwiki.log is created > > Proposal: > * We only log to stdout: > ** tomcat is already configured to capture stdout/stderr and to redirect > them to catalina.out > ** I have a modification ready for Jetty to do the same, here it is in case > you want to see it: > > <!-- =========================================================== --> > <!-- Redirect stdout & stderr to a log file --> > <!-- =========================================================== --> > <New id="ServerLog" class="java.io.PrintStream"> > <Arg> > <New class="org.mortbay.util.RolloverFileOutputStream"> > <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" > default="."/>/logs/yyyy_mm_dd.stderrout.log</Arg> > <Arg type="boolean">false</Arg> > <Arg type="int">90</Arg> > <Arg><Call class="java.util.TimeZone" > name="getTimeZone"><Arg>GMT</Arg></Call></Arg> > <Get id="ServerLogName" name="datedFilename"/> > </New> > </Arg> > </New> > <Call class="org.mortbay.log.Log" name="info"><Arg>Redirecting > stderr/stdout to <Ref id="ServerLogName"/></Arg></Call> > <Call class="java.lang.System" name="setErr"><Arg><Ref > id="ServerLog"/></Arg></Call> > <Call class="java.lang.System" name="setOut"><Arg><Ref > id="ServerLog"/></Arg></Call> > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
