RE: Question on Log4J Reliability

2004-01-15 Thread David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A.
Just to chime in, if you want near-100% reliable logging, I would log to the database. In the same transaction as the operation you want to log about. Not using Log4J. An application that comes to mind would be to log votes in a electronic voting machine. In that case, 'logging' is actually 'transa

RE: Log4J 1.3alpha (CVS) & JBOSS

2004-01-15 Thread Scott Deboy
I'm able to use the CVS version of log4j with JBoss 3.0.7, configured to send events via MulticastAppender to Chainsaw v2. I replaced $jboss_home/lib/log4j-boot.jar with the 1.3 alpha jar (jar the chainsaw.jar with the alpha-log4j.jar if you want to be able to use an expression filter in the confi

RE: Question on Log4J Reliability

2004-01-15 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Howdy, Not mainframe ;) Sun enterprise servers (Solaris 8 and 9 operating systems), as well as windows machines (mostly Windows 2000 servers). Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-Original Message- >From: Lin, Bosheng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:

RE: Question on Log4J Reliability

2004-01-15 Thread Lin, Bosheng
By in production, you mean Windows/Linux/Unix or Mainframe like IBM OS390? I am more interested to hear people from mainframe side. Thanks, Bosheng -Original Message- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:32 AM To: Log4J Users List Subject: R

RE: Question on Log4J Reliability

2004-01-15 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Howdy, We've been using log4j in production for years without any failures. He means reliable in a less common sense of the word, I think, in that log4j will notify you if it fails and try to do its best to continue. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-Original Message- >From: Ed

Question on Log4J Reliability

2004-01-15 Thread Edmund Y Dean
Greetings all, I've been looking into possibly using Log4J for some application/transactional logging uses (like access logs or user auditing ,etc.) However, I'm concerned about the statement in the FAQ that it is not a "reliable" logging system. What is the definition of a "reliable" loggin

Log4J 1.3alpha (CVS) & JBOSS

2004-01-15 Thread jerome moliere
Hi all, does someone tried to configure the log4J CVS code with JBOSS (current release 3.2.3) ? Using traces in botrh JBOSS source code & Log4J it seems that there 's a strange problem with entity resolver (Log4jEntityResolver) providing systemID very curious (log4j.dtdlog4.dtd) & parsing failing b

formatting stack trace (with SyslogAppender)

2004-01-15 Thread Alexander,D
Hi, I'm quite new to log4j but have looked through the web pages and 'The complete log4j manual' and can't see any solution mentioned to the problem I'm facing so wondered if anyone else has had a similar experience and could perhaps advise as to how they worked around it. I'll be using the S