On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Paul McMahan wrote:
On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Kevan Miller wrote:
The intent of this thread is to discuss the default log level for
the Geronimo server. I'd like to limit the discussion to the near-
term (e.g. Geronimo 2.0.x). IMO, we need a good overhaul of our
logging code. I'd like to see more structure and consistency in
our logging. However, that's not a 2.0.x issue.
The current default log level for a Geronimo 2.0.1 server is
ERROR. IMO, this is too restrictive. I think we should set the
default to INFO. This will make our server logging more verbose.
However, I'd rather have too much information, rather than too
little.
I think our default target audience should be application
developers and new users evaluating Geronimo. Currently, these
users are forced to configure log levels to INFO, so that they can
obtain necessary information for building and deploying
applications on Geronimo. This information should be available by
default, not requiring configuration...
Users who want to limit the logging output can reconfigure the
default logging levels, once they are more comfortable with Geronimo.
Right now users can add "-v" or "-vv" to the command line to
control the logging level. How would this proposal affect those
command line flags?
-v and -vv only impact CONSOLE logging, not log FILE logging. That
could be changed, I guess...
IMO, a threshold setting of ERROR for CONSOLE is good. I'd prefer to
see the FILE threshold set to INFO.
--kevan
