Maybe a better approach would be to upgrade log4j 1.2.7 to log4j 2 - which allows for example to refer to envronment variables (like DHIS2_HOME) in the configuration.
On 8 June 2015 at 13:37, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah!! I have just noticed that this new logging regime is actually > hardcoded in java. That strikes me as a really bad idea. Can we not > achieve exactly the same effect as you get in code by providing a > default log4j.xml file bundled in the war which could be overriden by > an external file. > > Whereas having a sensible out-of-the-box logging setup makes sense, I > can't really see any benefit at all in doing this with code rather > than configuration. What I would rather do, for example, is to have a > log4j config file bundled with dhis2-tools which is maybe a copy of > the default config. Then implementers could tweak if they saw fit. > Similar with devs or docker folk who might want to fall back to > catalina.out. > > What is the reason for configuring the logging with compiled code? Is > it just to to specify the default logging location based on > DHIS2_HOME? > > On 8 June 2015 at 13:06, Halvdan Grelland <halvda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If the log4j config is overridable at launch we could always add a property >> pointing to a development config in the maven dev profile. I'm not sure how >> that would play with this though as it's being configured programmatically >> at application startup. >> >> Thoughts Lars? >> >> 2015-06-08 3:45 GMT+02:00 Morten Olav Hansen <morte...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshe...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> No everything generated by DHIS 2 including exceptions go into the main >>>> dhis.log file. We should of course aim at fixing the cause of these errors. >>> >>> >>> Is there an easy way to switch this off during development? Having to tail >>> an extra log file every time doesn't sounds very convenient.. >>> >>> -- >>> Morten >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >>> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
