I want to have more control over what data is written to the various appenders in the log4j.properties files. I have played around with the various configurations in the log4j.properties file but I am not understanding how they are working in order to grasp how to have more control. I don't know if it would be a matter of turning off the INFO setting for the log4j.rootLogger and somehow setting individual logging for each appender.
Below is my environment details: 1) The tomcat version that is running is v8.0.26.0 2) The OS is a Centos v7 UNIX VM 3) Java JDK I have installed that Tomcat is using is 1.8.0_60 4) Due to the catalina.out file growing too large with the default juli.AsyncFileHandler using the logging.properties file that was found in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf directory. I changed the settings on a vendors software to use the log4j logging instead. (So this is NOT my web application or product written by me.) 5) I set the swallowOutput="true" in the vendors <context>.xml file to stop messages for stdout and stderr from going to the catalina.out files. 6) Most messages are now going to the catalina (no extention) and/or the localhost files which are rolled over daily when there is activity. 7) The vendors web application uses the context of cfcc. The Connector details are found in the <CATALINA_HOME>\server\conf\Catalina\localhost\cfcc.xml 8) I have A LOT of duplication in the log files. I would like to change that if I can. 9) Below are my log4j.properties settings: log4j.rootLogger=INFO, CATALINA # Define all the appenders log4j.appender.CATALINA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.CATALINA.File=${catalina.base}/logs/catalina log4j.appender.CATALINA.Append=true log4j.appender.CATALINA.Encoding=UTF-8 # Roll-over the log once per day log4j.appender.CATALINA.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log' log4j.appender.CATALINA.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.CATALINA.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n log4j.appender.CFCC=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.CFCC.File=${catalina.base}/logs/cfcc log4j.appender.CFCC.Append=true log4j.appender.CFCC.Encoding=UTF-8 log4j.appender.CFCC.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log' log4j.appender.CFCC.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.CFCC.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n log4j.appender.LOCALHOST=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.File=${catalina.base}/logs/localhost log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.Append=true log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.Encoding=UTF-8 log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log' log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n log4j.appender.MANAGER=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.MANAGER.File=${catalina.base}/logs/manager. log4j.appender.MANAGER.Append=true log4j.appender.MANAGER.Encoding=UTF-8 log4j.appender.MANAGER.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log' log4j.appender.MANAGER.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.MANAGER.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.File=${catalina.base}/logs/host-manager. log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.Append=true log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.Encoding=UTF-8 log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log' log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.CONSOLE.Encoding=UTF-8 log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n # Configure which loggers log to which appenders log4j;logger.org.apache.catalina.core,ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/cfcc]=INFO, CFCC log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]=OFF, LOCALHOST log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager]=\ INFO, MANAGER log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager]=\ INFO, HOST-MANAGER At this time ALL the same messages are written to the cfcc and the localhost log files. Absolutely no difference. All the messagse that are written to these two logs are also in the catalina log alongs with the tomcat startup messages. I would like to separate the tomcat startup messages from the web application messages that are written to both the localhost and cfcc logs. Thank you for your help in advance. -Joleen