Thanks for the quick response. Seperate logs for each tomcat was my proposal too. But people like to have an easy way to view them as a whole. A nice merge tool would be nice. The first and minumum requirement for the tool is to merge and sort all log records by time so that it can really be viewed as if there is only one log file. grep/sort command in unix might help, but we are in Windows. Chainsaw and Lumbermill provides nice GUI and filtering but i don't see merge function in them. Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot, -Simon -----Original Message----- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:51 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: multiple tomcat instance and log4j Hi, >It is my impression that lots of people on this user list are using log4j >as >their logging mechanism. Also i believe lots of people here use multiple >tomcat instances for load balancing. I am wondering how you guys are using >log4j in this case. If anyone can give me some ideas and/or answer my >questions below, that will be greatly appreciated. I'm one of those people, and my usage is as simple as can be: everything separate. Each webapp has its own log4j.properties and log4j.jar in WEB-INF/lib. Each Tomcat server has its own logging configuration. They all write to separate log files. I use programmatic configuration with a repository selector originally written by Jacob Kjome and available in the log4j CVS repository. I (or rather our admins) also use the configuration servlet in from the log4j CVS to change log4j settings at runtime, and they sometimes attach chainsaw to running systems to look at what's going on. All of this has been working for years now without a problem, using log4j 1.2.8 and various versions of tomcat. Since I don't combine the logs or run any sort of statistics from them, I can't help with those questions you had. My take on it is to always keep everything separate. It's easier to manage, deploy, and inspect only the relevant logs when an error occurs. Disk space is virtually free not only for big companies anymore, but for nearly anyone, so the cost of having N copies of the log4j.jar is negligible. Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
