Yes, using Chainsaw with a VFSLogFilePatternReceiver will allow you to
remotely tail log files if they're available via one of the file systems
supported by Jakarta Commons-VFS.
I've used both the sftp:// support to tail a file that's on another server
and accessible via ssh, and smb:// to tail a
Hi,
I want to setup Chainsaw 2 locally to track log4j logs on a remote machine.
The thing is that I don't want to have to modify the remote log4j.properties
file, since it is a production file, and modifying production things
requires much bureaucracy here. Is there a way to configure a receive
Can you set log4j.debug=true in your properties? you will get a lof of
output to System.out, which will tell you how log4j is configuring itself.
btw, your config looks good. any chance that your mail system is doing
something to the message?
Douglas E Wegscheid
Lead Technical Analyst, Whirlpoo
