Konstantin,
Thanks very much for your time. Your explanation makes things clearer. cheers Jon On 17 June 2010 14:37, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/6/17 Jonathan Jackson <jonathan.x.jack...@gmail.com>: > > The problem I have is that in my daily rolling catalina-[data].out I only > > get SEVERE level messages. > > Given the above configuration, my understanding from reading this ( > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html) is that FINE for > the > > FileHandler would log everything above ie. > FINE,CONFIG,INFO,WARNING....But > > Im only getting SEVERE written to my daily rolling logfile. > > > > The Tomcat JULI logging is an implementation of java.util.logging (aka > JUL), which documentation is here, > > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/logging/package-summary.html#package_description > > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/logging/Level.html > > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/logging/index.html > > etc. > > > To make a brief summary, there are two levels where log messages are > filtered: > a) at the category (aka "logger") level > > If level of a category (if not specified then its parent level is > taken) does not match the message, it will be rejected by the logging > system and will not be processed at all. > > > That is what these lines are for: > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level > org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.level > > The categories form a hierarchy, and the default level is specified by > .level= INFO > > > Note, that the > "org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]" > category is for the messages logged through Servlet.log() API calls, > which I think is rare. > > Usually applications use commons-logging calls and their category > names are different. Thus the defaults (.level=INFO) apply to them. > > There is no ".level= INFO" in Tomcat's logging.properties because the > defaults are provided by JRE through its logging.properties. But you > can always add such a line by yourself, e.g. > > .level= FINEST > will cause a lot of messages being processed > > b) when writing the message out (aka "handler") level > > If handler level does not match the message, it will be skipped (but > may be printed by other handlers). > > <categoryname>.handler setting attaches handlers to a category. > > > I think you missed a). > > By the way, > > .handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, > > java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler > > I hope that those lines were wrapped by the mailing software. You > cannot wrap lines in a properties file like that (though you can if > you end previous line with '\'). see java.util.Properties JavaDoc. > > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
