On 12/03/2010 02:36 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > 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.
Also, this is just a default. We could leave the xwiki.log logger configuration in log4j.properties, but commented out, which would mean that someone wanting to capture xwiki-only logs in a different file can do that easily. +1 from me to this proposal as well. >> >> 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? -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
