Todd, Am 29.08.13 18:43, schrieb Todd Bradley: > > Thanks to Dominik, Christian, and Scott for your replies. It's great > to have so much help, even if some of it contradicts each other. As > far as which list is right, I assumed this would be the place to go > for help using Chainsaw and log4net together. Dominik and Christian > say that's wrong, Scott says that's possibly right. Oh well. > when it comes to Chainsaw, Scott is your expert. Chainsaw itself is usually discussed on log4j-*.. I was not sure if Scott would read log4-net lists, but it seems he does and so what he says counts again. So feel free to keep on asking here.
> I did download the Chainsaw snapshot from Scott's site and it's > working great with my log4net app -- way better than the older version > I originally tried. I think this combination will catch on where I > work as a useful tool for both Development and QA. > Thats great to hear! Thanks for the feedback! Cheers Christian > > > > > > Cheers, > > Todd. > > > > > > *From:*Scott Deboy [mailto:scott.de...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:41 AM > *To:* Log4NET User > *Subject:* Re: Chainsaw > > > > There is a developer snapshot of Chainsaw which includes a lot of new > features and an improved UI. > > It's available here: http://people.apache.org/~sdeboy > <http://people.apache.org/%7Esdeboy> > > With this version of Chainsaw you can use the Udp appender support in > log4net (specify the log4j xml layout) with a Udp receiver. > > You can also have Chainsaw tail a regular text log file. > > The Chainsaw config screen will walk you through settings needed to > tail a local file and will define a VFSLogFilePatternReceiver. > > Tailing a log file on a remote windows machine requires downloading > the NFS support from the Apache Commons VFS project and installing it > next to the other Chainsaw jars. > > Feel free to send any Chainsaw questions to this list or the log4j list. > > Scott > > On Aug 28, 2013 6:50 AM, "Todd Bradley" <todd.brad...@nirvanix.com > <mailto:todd.brad...@nirvanix.com>> wrote: > > Years ago I when I first learned Apache Logging, it was with log4j. > And later, the Chainsaw GUI app came along, which was very useful. Now > I'm using log4net, and decided that Chainsaw might be a good way to > monitor my application's logging in real time. But I was surprised to > see that the most recent build is from early 2006, well over 7 years > ago. Am I looking in the right place? > > > > http://logging.apache.org/chainsaw/download.html > > > > It seems hard to believe that Chainsaw hasn't advanced since then. It > starts up on my Windows 7 desktop, but the GUI behavior is a bit weird > so far. So I'm wondering if the app is really compatible with current > Java versions. Do any of you use Chainsaw with log4net, and -- if so > -- is this the correct build for me to use? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Todd. >
