This is a report right? I think I answered this one yesterday...
At 09:22 14.03.2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a web application which is uses Log4j for the logging of error
>and debugging information. I am using Apache/Tomcat 4 to serve my
>application which is JSP/Servlet based.
>
>The web application is correctly initializing and creating the log file
>on a production machine which is also running Tomcat 4. However when I
>run the application on my development machine I don't get the automatic
>creation of the log file when I start the application or restart
>Tomcat. So my logging
>
>I have recently reinstalled Tomcat on my development machine so perhaps
>there is something that I forgot to do in the configuration of Tomcat on
>
>that machine ? I guess that this is most likely since everything works
>on
>one server and not on another, both of which are running Tomcat 4.
>
>Some info which might give some insight follows.
>
>
>The log4j-core.jar and log4j.jar files are both in WEB-INF/lib.
>
>I don't see any errors associated with Log4j in the
>$CATALINA_HOME/logs/localhost.txt file, only messages such as
>
>2002-03-13 18:08:44 log4j-init: init
>
>
>I have the following as my log4j.properties file, which is in
>WEB_INF/classes:
>
>---------------
>
># Set root category priority to DEBUG and its only appender to A1.
>log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, A1
>
># A1 is set to be a RollingFileAppender.
>log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
>
>log4j.appender.A1.File=info.log
>log4j.appender.A1.MaxFileSize=100KB
>
># Keep one backup file
>log4j.appender.A1.MaxBackupIndex=2
>
># A1 uses PatternLayout.
>log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%5p %d (%F:%L) - %m%n
>
>---------------
>
>I have the following as the first entry in my web.xml:
>
>---------------
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>log4j-init</servlet-name>
> <servlet-class>trajectoryview.util.Log4jInit</servlet-class>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>log4j-init-file</param-name>
> <param-value>WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties</param-value>
> </init-param>
> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
> </servlet>
>
>---------------
>
>My servlet which does the initialization has the following init()
>method:
>
>---------------
>
>public void init()
> {
> // gets the base directory to use, from the web application's
>"context"
> String prefix = getServletContext().getRealPath("/");
>
> // this looks in the web.xml for the initialization file
>parameter
> String file = getInitParameter("log4j-init-file");
>
> // if the log4j-init-file is not set, then no point in trying
> if (file != null)
> {
> // apply the configuration specified in the initialization
>file
> PropertyConfigurator.configure(prefix + file);
> }
> }
>
>---------------
>
>
>
>Any suggestions or help of any sort will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>-James
>
>
>
>
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