On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 14:14, Florin Ciubotaru <[email protected]> wrote:
> +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.

Separate each app output in different files can and should be done by
the application server.

>
> 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
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