[ANNOUNCE] Log4j 1 End-of-Life Statement

2022-01-05 Thread Ron Grabowski
Dear Log4j community, While working on the December 2021 Apache Log4j 2 releases the Apache Logging Services PMC received requests to reevaluate the 2015 End-of-Life (EOL) decision for Apache Log4j 1, which has seen its latest release in 2012. We have considered these requests and discussed vario

Re: how to use external log4j2 property file

2022-01-05 Thread Ralph Goers
This is temporary and only enables log4j to debug what is going on with configuration, rollovers, etc. It doesn’t matter where your log4j configuration resides. Please set the property on whatever you use to start your server. Ralph > On Jan 5, 2022, at 1:34 PM, Niranjan Rao wrote: > > On 1/4

Re: how to use external log4j2 property file

2022-01-05 Thread Niranjan Rao
On 1/4/22 6:16 PM, Jin, Ying wrote: Hello, We have a requirement to use external server-side log4j2.properties file for our log4j2 upgrade projects. After using the following jar files in the project and use the code below to configure log4j with an external log4j2 property file. We still see

Re: how to use external log4j2 property file

2022-01-05 Thread Matt Sicker
That’s a system property to set on the java command line invocation of your application. — Matt Sicker > On Jan 5, 2022, at 10:51, Jin, Ying wrote: > > Can you let me know where I should put the following property in the > application? Thanks! > > -Dlog4j2.debug=true > > From: Jin, Ying >

RE: RE: how to use external log4j2 property file

2022-01-05 Thread Jin, Ying
Can you let me know where I should put the following property in the application? Thanks! -Dlog4j2.debug=true From: Jin, Ying Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 9:34 AM To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org Subject: RE: RE: how to use external log4j2 property file On 2022/01/05 02:16:47 "Jin, Ying"

Re: how to use external log4j2 property file

2022-01-05 Thread Ralph Goers
OK, what you are doing should work. Can you add -Dlog4j2.debug=true to the application and provide the output from the Log4j StatusLogger? Ralph > On Jan 5, 2022, at 8:33 AM, Jin, Ying wrote: > > Hello Ralph, > > In my previous message that I mentioned that we commented out this file > locat

RE: RE: how to use external log4j2 property file

2022-01-05 Thread Jin, Ying
Hello Ralph, In my previous message that I mentioned that we commented out this file located in our project by using "#". The log4j2.properties file on server has no # sign. Thanks, Jenny From: Jin, Ying Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 8:49 AM To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org Subject: RE: how

Re: how to use external log4j2 property file

2022-01-05 Thread Ralph Goers
This may be a silly question, but do each of the entries actually start with #? That would mean all the lines are commented out. Ralph > On Jan 5, 2022, at 7:49 AM, Jin, Ying wrote: > > Ralph, > Thanks for your reply! The two log4j jar files were put in the application's > WEB-INF/lib folder

RE: how to use external log4j2 property file

2022-01-05 Thread Jin, Ying
Ralph, Thanks for your reply! The two log4j jar files were put in the application's WEB-INF/lib folder. Anything needs to be changed in the web.xml? One application uses JDK 11, JSF2.3 and the other one uses JDK 11, GWT2.9 etc. Please see below for the log4j2.properties file that was put in the r