Thanks for the reply, Chris! On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Chris Custine <chris.cust...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the logging is configured differently if you use the interactive > console via jclouds-cli (which is configured as part of the osgi runtime > in etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg) or using the jclouds shell command > (configured in etc/log4j.properties). I think you can do what you want, > but it will take a bit of work to figure out the right place to do it. If > PAX logging (the mechanism in Karaf that handles most of this) were to > support log4j2 the EnvironmentLookup feature would work perfectly for this > because you could just set the log level and location based on env > variables. > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/lookups.html#EnvironmentLookup > Unfortunately it doesn't look like PAX logging supports log4j2 yet, but it > might be in the works: > http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Were-you-guys-still-interested-in-adopting-Log4j2-for-your-logging-system-td4033296.html > > One thing you can do is use the KARAF_OPTS env variable to set a path to a > custom log4j.properties file. I have one with special appenders and debug > log level and I call the jclouds command like this: > KARAF_OPTS="-Dlog4j.configuration=file://$(pwd)/etc/log4j-debug.properties" > bin/jclouds image list > --properties=/Users/ccustine/.jclouds/devstack.properties > > not the prettiest solution but HTH.
That's a really good pointer. I think I can definitely work around this issue with the KARAF_OPTS variable for now. > Chris > > -- > Chris Custine > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Timur Alperovich < > timur.alperov...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I'm still looking into propagating an additional command line option >> to affect the configuration of log4j (specifically, override the log >> level and the location of the logs -- >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-119) and I got a bit >> lost in jclouds-karaf. Could someone point me to where Log4J is >> initialized/configured (which is where, I presume, the log4j property >> needs to be overriden -- I want to override the log4j.rootLogger and >> log4j.appender.file.File properties)? >> >> Maybe this is a totally wrong way to go about attempting to resolve >> this issue -- please do let me know if that is the case. >> >> Thank you! >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Timur >> -- Cheers, Timur
