Georg,Finally kind of solved my problem. First, I went to a fresh install of 5.5.23 and then added the log4j.properties file in ${CATALINA_HOME}/common/classes and the log4j jar file in ${CATALINA_HOME}/common/lib. No go. So, thinking maybe the documentation was wrong, I moved the properties file to ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf. Again, no go. The I copied it back to common/classes and therefore unintentionally left a copy in conf. And suddenly things started working. Of course, log level DEBUG is not terribly helpful in most cases (too much data) and so I modified the properties file, switching it to INFO and things broke. Then I remembered the copy in conf and changed it. What seems to be happening and makes no logical sense is that so long as I have identical copies of the log4j.properties file in conf and common/classes, everything works. I'm sure that somewhere, something is screwed up, but I have no idea what. Weird!
-- Rob On 05/31/2007 02:59 PM, Georg Sauer-Limbach wrote:
Hi Rob, check catalina.out, there should be some message of log4j complaining if it has been loaded but cannot work. You may also add -Dlog4.debug to the java command line, this makes log4j output debug messages on stdout. If you don't see any output of log4j, then I'd suggest calling java with -verbose:class, this makes java print information about every class it loads and from which source it loaded it. Grep for log4j to see if it is at all loaded. Georg Rob Tanner wrote:Hi, I was originally planning to move to Tomcat 6 but backed off for a number of reasons. Now I have Tomcat 5.5.9 installed an working, except for logging (and one other problem that I might be able to resolve on my own if only I could get logging to work). I have never configured Tomcat to log using log4j (Tomcat 4.x's built-in was sufficient). Following the instructions on the website (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/logging.html), I creating a log4j.properties file and placed it in common/classes -- the only change I made on the example on the webpage was to replace a variable with an absolute path: log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, R log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.R.File=/var/apache/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/logs/tomcat.log log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=10MB log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=10 log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n I then put log4j-1.2.7.jar and commons-logging-1.1.jar jarfiles in common/lib and started Tomcat. The instructions don't say anything about doing anything else and I've not done very much with log4j other than use it to enable syslog logging in various applications, but it's not working. Any ideas? Thanks, Rob--------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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