Howdy, I meant entirely using a 3rd party logging toolkit, such as log4j (jakarta.apache.org/log4j). Tomcat provides great logging capabilities for a web server, but is not a full-featured logging toolkit nor should it be IMHO.
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Madhava Reddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:34 AM >To: 'Tomcat Users List' >Subject: RE: How do I get the absolute path of a file in a directory abov e >WEB-INF directory of my web application? > >Hi Yaov, > >All other writing should be done to directories/files declared as >parameters to your context or servlets. For example: ><context-param> > <param-name>logFile</param-name> > <param-value>/tmp/blahblahLogs/blahblahLogFile.txt</param-value> ></context-param> > >This way other people using/deploying your app can configure these >settings to a directory that suits their deployment. > > >I have my own doubts about this. The log files created contains all the >mapping or web applications, and some log files contain the each request >information. Loger contains all the mapping informaion and Valve contains >all the request information. What if I do not want to have all these >information in my log file. I want to have meaningful infomation only. >Like, >user -- login time -- log out time -- time of usage -- user type ( >applicaiton dependent ) -- etc etc. I cheked out all the levels for >logging. >Most restrictive logging also contain the basic mapping/request >information. > >Given above requirement, is there a way to do it with out creating our own >log file, accessing and writing using java ? If there is no way of doing >using Tomcat logs, then I need to use my own logs. > >Please tell me how to do this? > >Thanks >Madhav -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
