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Hudson commented on HADOOP-3368:
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Integrated in Hadoop-trunk #581 (See 
[http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-trunk/581/])

> Can commons-logging.properties be pulled from hadoop-core?
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3368
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3368
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.19.0
>            Reporter: Steve Loughran
>            Assignee: Steve Loughran
>             Fix For: 0.19.0
>
>         Attachments: hadoop-3368.patch
>
>
> In the root of hadoop-core.jar is a log4j.properties and a 
> commons-logging.properties
> while this provides good standalone functionality to hadoop, it complicates 
> anyone else trying to control the logging, and use the libraries in-process.
> In particular, there is a commons-logging.properties file that selects Log4J 
> as the back end. This is not needed as
>  -log4j is automatically picked up if it is on the classpath 
>  -if it is not on the classpath, asking for it is generally considered bad 
> form
> If you look at the commons-logging configuration details:
>  http://commons.apache.org/logging/guide.html#Configuration
> you will see that that such a properties file takes priority over any setting 
> through system properties, which makes it very hard to override the settings 
> without adding multiple commons-logging.properties files and playing with 
> their priority settings 
> If you pull the commons-logging.properties file from hadoop-core log4j will 
> still be picked up by default, but it becomes easier for people to turn on 
> different logging infrastructures if they want to. It should have no visible 
> impact on the end user experience (unlike pulling log4j.properties)

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