As someone who has spent thousands of hours debugging OFBiz installations I can 
assure you that the error.log is redundant and provides no true value over 
ofbiz.log.  As I've mentioned a few times now, OFBiz errors are regularly 
worthless without knowledge of the context of the error which can only be found 
in ofbiz.log.

With a few command line tools "clutter" is a total non-issue and even a basic 
knowledge of those tools is a total time saver when investigating log files.

Regards
Scott

On 15/09/2014, at 7:43 pm, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote:

> On the basis that log analysis and error identification/reporting costs
> money, and the more complex this process is the more it costs.
> An error log contains less clutter and is the first point in identification
> and triage of (severe) issues in any organisation that has adopted a
> methodology for service delivery (e.g. ITIL, ISO/IEC 20000, etc),
> specifically the error control process (in ITIL)
> 
> Without this OOTB more time is spend on:
> 
>   - going through the other, more detailed log(s) in the various OFBiz
>   systems an organisation might have (e.g. dev, test, prod, etc)
>   - getting the error log back and ensuring that it stays in.
> 
> 
> 
> Pierre Smits
> 
> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> Services and Retail & Trade
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> 
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Scott Gray <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On what basis?
>> 
>> Regards
>> Scott
>> 
>> On 12/09/2014, at 9:44 pm, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I support reverting this regression.
>>> 
>>> Pierre Smits
>>> 
>>> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
>>> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
>>> Based Manufacturing, Professional
>>> Services and Retail & Trade
>>> http://www.orrtiz.com
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Jacopo Cappellato <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 12, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Jacques Le Roux <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I don't understand why you are so not open to put back the error.log in
>>>> log4j2.xml
>>>> 
>>>> Because it is just one of 1 million possible ways to configure logging:
>> it
>>>> is a specific one on not a generic one and so it is not better than the
>>>> other 1 million possibilities; you have explained why you like it but
>> me or
>>>> others could find similar arguments for the other millions ways; since
>> no
>>>> one seconded you in your attempt to add the configuration back this
>>>> confirms to me that this specific configuration is not better than
>> other;
>>>> for this reason it should be left out of the trunk.
>>>> 
>>>>> and qualify this as a mess and almost myself and idiot.
>>>> 
>>>> I didn't say this and the mail archive can demonstrate it; you have been
>>>> trying to raise the tone of the conversation since the beginning of this
>>>> thread (and you did the same in at least another thread recently) but I
>>>> will not start to fight with you.
>>>> 
>>>> Jacopo
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> 

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