Forgot one line, add at the end log4j.rootLogger=info, stdout
-----Original Message----- From: Lance Frohman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:49 PM To: 'MyFaces Discussion'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: How to configure logging Hi, I use log4j, you need to have the library, log4j-1.??.jar (?? is the version) in you libs directory, and put the configuration file, log4j.properties, in your classpath, I put it under the classes directory. That's it. To get started, you can use my log4j.properties, it starts with (copy between the ====): ================== start of file log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, general log4j.appender.general=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.general.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.general.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{[yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss z]} %-5p %C.%M(%L)%x : %m %n ### direct log messages to stdout ### log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n log4j.logger.org.apache.myfaces=info log4j.logger.org.apache.myfaces.el=info ================== end of file -----Original Message----- From: Jim Graf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:14 PM To: users@myfaces.apache.org Subject: How to configure logging Hi, I need to trace my webapp (a combination of myfaces and adf) and I found this: http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/LoggingSettings but as I've never used commons-logging or log4j, I have no idea of how or where to configure that information. I'm using tomcat 5.0.x and I'm not using any IDE. I would appreciate any information or example. thanks, jim