Hi Michael, When defining system properties on the command line there is no space between the -D and the property name (so you need -Dchainsaw.port=4445). By putting a space in, the JVM is looking for a class called "chainsaw.port=4445" which it obviously can't find, hence the error message.
Keith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 March 2003 10:10 To: Log4J Users List Subject: RE: log4j with chainsaw Hi Paul Thanks for your reply. I have tried what you said except i get this message on the console: C:\Java\jakarta-log4j-1.2.8\dist\lib>java -D chainsaw.port=4445 org.apache.log4j .chainsaw.Main Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: chainsaw/port=4445 (I type the java -D chainsaw.port=4445 org.apache.log4j.chainsaw.Main ) I am in the directory with the log4j.jar file inside. Am i doing this correctly??????? Sorry if this sounds very silly, but i am a very new user to Java & log4j. - Michael Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Log4J Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> x.com.au> cc: Subject: RE: log4j with chainsaw 13/03/2003 21:27 Please respond to "Log4J Users List" > Where can i find an example, of using chainsaw app????? > I am using xml config and output. Ceki's book doesn't mention much on > chainsaw to view XML logs. I just want to see how it would look etc.. Hi Michael, Here's a property file for the app that I want to remote via logs via chainsaw: # This logger catches everything else that is getting logged. log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, ChainSaw log4j.appender.ChainSaw=org.apache.log4j.net.SocketAppender log4j.appender.ChainSaw.RemoteHost=localhost log4j.appender.ChainSaw.Port=4445 log4j.appender.ChainSaw.LocationInfo=true log4j.appender.ChainSaw.ReconnectionDelay=5000 [end property file] I don't think a layout is required (might even be the cause of the issue). When chainsaw starts up, it will start listening on a default port of 4445, and if the SocketAppender on the remote side doesn't immediately connect to Chainsaw it will give up forever without the ReconnectionDelay parameter setting. If this doesn't work, try starting Chainsaw using "java" rather than "javaw" to see any Chainsaw specific log outputs about connections etc. Hope this helps. cheers, Paul Smith --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
