Sorry can't help you there. I was where you are now a year or more ago, "fancy logging frameworks - too much hassle to learn for the simple logs that I want". But I soon realised that it was more work, and quite a bit more ugly, trying to do your own thing. I'd say bite the bullet and embrace the latest release and logging framework. There have been a few different ones over recent versions, but the TC dev team are converging them nicely now. It might seem a little over engineered for simple logging requirements at first, but once you spend the time to make it work, you will get what you want, and come to realise that the advanced features are really useful for debugging in situations exactly like yours.
I'm using commons-logging very successfully, is very flexible and not hard to learn. If you really reach your wits end making logging work and just want a blunt instrument to detect one-off if your overloaded method is called, when not do something else to signal its presence, such as add a line to it which creates a file called "ive.been.called" in a certain directory. Gets you past having to fix your log/stream problem. You won't find this logging framework in the TC docs though ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday 23 May 2005 19:58 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: confused about simple logging > > > Well I am having lots of self doubt. > > I am trying to install my own overloaded JDBCRealm, I have > been getting > some Sybase jdescripter error. (My backend DB has an old > means of encoding > passwords so I overloaded the getPassword method.) I don't > know if my code > is getting called or is it not. I have System.out.... trace > statements in > the constructor after the call to the super ctor as well as > the getPassword > method. And, I see none of my trace in any of the Tomcat log files. > > This is frustrating after 3 days. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 1:46 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: confused about simple logging > > > > Not sure, ut I think all the output streams are diverted to > that file. It's > probably configurable. Don't know full detail to be honest. > Best wasy is > try it and see. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday 23 May 2005 19:02 > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: RE: confused about simple logging > > > > > > > > If I write to stdout where does that go? > > > > System.stdout.println("Where does this get printed to?"); > > > > I assume C:/tomcat.../log/stdout? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steve Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:28 PM > > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > > Subject: RE: confused about simple logging > > > > > > > > Your confusion possibly arises because there are at least 2 > > types of logger > > that you might mean, and 3 main choices for one of those at > > the moment, > > although one of those 3 is deprecated and a second is > > probably becoming less > > popular. > > > > OK I'll take a quick stab and see if this gets you anywhere > > in the right > > direction. > > > > You mention two distinct types of logging. The 1st is the > > "hit" logging > > which is very similar to what you would get from apache > > httpd. This simply > > logs each incoming request. This is achieved by adding a > > <Valve> to your > > %catalina_home%\conf\server.xml - you can embed it inside the > > <Host></Host>, > > <Engine></Engine> or <Context></Context> tags, but for your > > purposes, just > > shove it in the engine for now. It looks a bit like this: > > > > <Engine blah blah> > > <Valve > > className="org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve" > > directory="logs" prefix="ao_access_log_" suffix=".log" > > pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/> > > </Engine> > > > > You can tweak the path, filename, and the pattern that > > defines each line - > > see > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/valve.html > > for details. Leave resolveHosts set "false" to speed up > performance. > > > > Not that my example above is from my own 5.5.9 server - ISTR > > 5.0 config > > syntax is different - check the doc link above for the detail. > > > > The 2nd part of your logging is where you write your own > messages to a > > logfile. I did that as follows: > > > > java.util.logging.Logger logger = > > java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("logname"); > > logger.setLevel(logLevel); > > fh = new FileHandler(logFilePath, maxLogFileSize, > logFileCount, true); > > fh.setFormatter(new AoLogFormatter(logFileDateTimePattern)); > > logger.addHandler(fh); > > > > Then to write a log message you can just do this: > > > > log("Write this to the log"); > > > > and it will write the log file to logFilePath > > > > See the java.util.logging.Logger javadocs for more details. > > > > This is very basic. Much more spophistication can be > achieved through > > config files. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday 23 May 2005 18:01 > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > Subject: confused about simple logging > > > > > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > I'm a bit confused about simple logging on tomcat 5.0. I've > > > read much of the > > > FAQ at > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/logging.html#builtIn but that > > > doesn't seem to address what I'm looking for, which is just > > > routine mundane > > > daily activity. > > > > > > For instance, if I create and deploy a simple "Hello World" > > > application that > > > contains only index.jsp, no servlets, no external classes > > and no JNDI > > > resources, where on earth will a "hit" be recorded when I > > navigate to > > > http://localhost/helloworld/index.jsp ? And where is the > > > error recorded if I > > > mistype and navigate to http://localhost/helloworld/jndex.JSP ? > > > > > > Do I have to build such logging into the application? Or > > > does Catalina handle > > > that for me? And if so ... where on earth? > > > > > > I'm using FreeBSD installed at /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0 > > > > > > I see log information in > > /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/logs/stderr.log > > > and /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/logs/stdout.log but nothing > > > that records a > > > "page hit." > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > lane > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
