thanks all for the input! i will look into this further, but the worse case would be to write a secret action named "woodchuckshouldbetheonlyonethatcallsthissecretaction.do"
that should make it somewhat safe! :) hehehe --- Jason Lea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Log4j has configureAndWatch which looks for changes to the > configuration > file. As for commons-logging it doesn't have it yet: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10152.html > > So the other suggestion of having an action to reload or change the > level is probably your best bet right now. > > > Woodchuck wrote: > > >hi Shinobu, > > > >thanks for your reply. sorry, but i meant arbitrarily (at any > time), > >rather than hard-coding logic in the code to toggle the debug flag > at > >certain known situations. > > > >what i thought was, if possible, it would be nice if we could > somehow > >get the debug flag to read (poll) from some configuration file or > >something, so that we can change this configuration file to > >enable/disable logging (or even level of logging) in the application > >(esp. running in production). i can see this being useful to > minimize > >logging activity in production until there is a problem, then turn > on > >logging to investigate and turn off when fixed, etc. > > > >does commons-logging allow for something like this? > > > >woodchuck > > > >--- Shinobu Kawai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Hi Woodchuck, > >> > >> > >> > >>>how can we toggle the debug flag during runtime? is it possible? > >>> > >>> > >>or > >> > >> > >>>does it require restarting the application? > >>> > >>> > >>Depends on how you implement it, I guess. > >>I use commons-logging, which completely depends on the underlying > >>logging framework; log4j by default. With log4j, you can > >>Logger#setLevel() to change logging level at runtime. > >>Never wanted to, though... > >> > >>Best regards, > >>-- Shinobu Kawai > >> > >>-- > >>Shinobu Kawai <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! > >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Jason Lea > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
