Hi Greg, Thanks for such a detailed reply.
One of my concerns is that LF5 may be unsupported in that I believe that the authors donated it to Apache. I am anxious that a decision to adopt LF5 is a valid long term decision Regards Steve -----Original Message----- From: Greg Cutler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2003 18:50 To: Log4J Users List Subject: RE: Chainsaw vs LogFactor5 We're using primarily LF5 in a number of scenarios (described below), and been happy with the results in each case: 1) Local development Just configured a LF5 Appender in the local config. As soon as any logging occurs, the LF5 window automatically opens and you get you logging in real-time. 2) Remote real-time There's two ways to do this one: first is to use a local SocketServer configured with LF5, where the remote application then uses a SocketAppender to send the logging events to the local server, where they will be displayed in the LF5 console in real-time. However, we are working behind a firewall that won't allow the incoming connections, so we set up a SocketHubAppender on the remote server that will listen for incoming connections. Then we have a little rig to start up a SocketNode locally with the LF5 setup (I'll send the rig source tomorrow... it's on my machine at work). This setup also works well for us to track problems on the remote live server in real-time. 3) Remote off-line Many of our services also write a log file in LF5 format that we can then load up into LF5 offline just to spot-check or for historical reasons. Haven't worked with Chainsaw, but am pretty sold on LF5. Later, Greg --- Scott Schram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:18 AM 2/11/2003, you wrote: > >Scott, > > > >Thanks for the info... Have you always used > chainsaw or did you convert from > >LogFactor5 (if so why)? > > > >Thanks also for the reference to BugZilla - I > hadn't realized it was > >there!!! > > > >Regards > >Steve > > We just got started using Chainsaw, and during this > development phase it > has done what we need. Chainsaw is not difficult to > use. Just start it, > and then start your app sending it log entries. The > features are simple > and obvious. > > I got the impression when I looked at it that > LogFactor5 was more suited to > analyzing log files. I don't know if it can receive > messages via > socket. Maybe some LF5 fans can add something. > > Scott > > http://schram.net > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
