I just tried on my desktop and it works. LogUtils from ACS just calls DOMConfigurator.configureAndWatch() which spawns a thread called Filewatchdog. It just sleep for 60 seconds and then checks the modified time on the log4j-cloud.xml. I haven't tested on a really production setup though. Can you tell me if you see the line with "log4j configuration found at ...."
Darren On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > Darren, > > Iirc, all I did was make a thread available to log4j to monitor the config > file that it had loaded. > > I checked the open file handles with Sheng and couldn't find any open file > handles to any log4j-cloud.xml, which if this was done, will always have an > open file handle. > > --Alex > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Darren Shepherd [mailto:darren.s.sheph...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:16 PM >> To: Alex Huang >> Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> Subject: Re: cloudstack no longer monitoring log4j-cloud.xml? >> >> Cc'ing dev list from the right email >> >> Darren >> >> > On Dec 17, 2013, at 10:14 PM, "Darren Shepherd" >> <darren.sheph...@citrix.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'll look at it, but that util method that loads the log4j-cloud.xml is >> > still being >> called, I can't remember the api off the top of my head. >> > >> > My first guess would actually be that the file is getting loaded from a >> different place than /etc. ACS packages a lot of files twice and I often >> see the >> scripts files being loaded from web-inf/classes and not the other location in >> /usr. >> > >> > Darren >> > >> >> On Dec 17, 2013, at 5:03 PM, "Alex Huang" <alex.hu...@citrix.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hey Darren, >> >> >> >> I've just been alerted that cloudstack doesn't seem to be dynamically >> loading the log4j configurations any more. This means you need to restart >> the server every time someone changes the logging level. This was done by >> the componentlocator previously. Was this lost during the spring changes? >> Can you bring the functionality back? >> >> >> >> I saw this in master but my guess is it's in 4.3 as well. >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> --Alex
