I haven't looked at the code but I thought that's what one of those sys props
did...
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> On 2014/08/03, at 14:57, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
> What he may really want is a way to register the console listener earlier -
> via a system property.
>
> Ralph
>
>> On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:24 AM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ok. Take a look at the system properties section of the Configuration manual
>> page. There seem to be two settings. I'm not sure which to use:
>> Log4jDefaultStatusLevel or log4j2.StatusLogger.level.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 2014/08/01, at 16:15, Marco Cosentino <cosentino...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Remko,
>>> thanks for the reply.
>>> I'd still like something which can be enabled through system preoperties
>>> and logs at very early stages, for example, where the config is read from.
>>>
>>> Marco.
>>>
>>>> On 08/01/2014 12:04 AM, Remko Popma wrote:
>>>> All you need to do is set status="trace" in your log4j2.xml config file.
>>>>
>>>> So the beginning of your config looks like this:
>>>> <Configuration status="trace" ...
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On 2014/08/01, at 1:13, Marco Cosentino <cosentino...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I'm trying to get log4j 2.0 debug information printed out in the console
>>>>> but I couldn't manage to get them.
>>>>> In log4j 1.x you would set the system property "log4j.debug".
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought that the mechanism was similar in log4j 2.x and apparently it
>>>>> should be by setting
>>>>> log4j2.StatusLogger.level=DEBUG
>>>>>
>>>>> Still nothing, so I dug a little bit in the code and found that the
>>>>> StatusLogger logs its messages either to the listeners (if there's at
>>>>> least one) or to a SimpleLogger (logger) which is initialized in the
>>>>> constructor (method StatusLogger#logMessage()).
>>>>>
>>>>> I found that there was a JMX listener registered so I disabled JMX beans
>>>>> with
>>>>> log4j2.disable.jmx=true
>>>>> but still no luck: the messages don't appear in the console.
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed though that the constructor might be the source of the problem:
>>>>>
>>>>> private StatusLogger() {
>>>>> this.logger = new SimpleLogger("StatusLogger", Level.ERROR, false,
>>>>> true, false, false, Strings.EMPTY, null, PROPS,
>>>>> System.err);
>>>>> this.listenersLevel = Level.toLevel(DEFAULT_STATUS_LEVEL,
>>>>> Level.WARN).intLevel();
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> The SimpleLogger is initialized using level ERROR therefore the isEnabled
>>>>> implementation in StatusLogger returns the logging level of this.logger
>>>>> which is always ERROR even if I wanted DEBUG.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would it make sense to use DEFAULT_STATUS_LEVEL to actually set the level
>>>>> into the SimpleLogger constructor?
>>>>> Why is it so hard to get debug messages showing up in the console (I mean
>>>>> disable JMX and set the property to DEBUG)?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Marco Cosentino
>>>>>
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