Re: log4j.properties gets loaded twice causing rollling to fail

2014-07-12 Thread Jacob Kjome
Because Log4j, by default, looks for config files in the default package.  Furthermore, because of Tomcat's child-first classloading behavior, if you place log4j.properties in the default package of the webapp (WEB-INF/classes) it won't bother looking in the parent classloader since it will ha

Re: log4j.properties gets loaded twice causing rollling to fail

2014-07-12 Thread Gerald
Hi Could I trouble you to explain further why putting the application log4j.properties in WEB-INF/classes, as opposed to WEB-INF/classes/properties, would prevent the webapp classloader from seeing the tomcat's log4j.properties? Gerald > On 11 Jul, 2014, at 11:27 pm, "Jacob Kjome" wrote: >