If GeoServer is not creating a log file, Tomcat typically adds some error output to /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out or /var/log/tomcat/localhost.($date).log . You can look there to hopefully find some information about your problem.
-- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Reinier Battenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed from the ubuntu packages. Nothing fancy, totally clean. > > When i started searching for logfiles i found that the file > > /var/lib/geoserver/geonode-data/logs/geoserver.log > > does not exist. Even the 'logs' folder does not. > > Still, in the folder /var/log/geonode/ a link to this file is created. > > I tried creating the logs folder and touching the geoserver.log file, but > nothing is written to the file (though I have an internal server error, > which > I hope is logged with some more detail, once we pass this hurdle) > > The content of the logging.xml file in the /var/lib/geoserver/geonode-data > folder is > > <logging> > <level>DEFAULT_LOGGING.properties</level> > <location>logs/geoserver.log</location> > <stdOutLogging>true</stdOutLogging> > </logging> > > > Any clues how to get anything meaningful in the geoserver.log file? > > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 758 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > http://twitter.com/batje > http://twitter.com/mapuganda > > >
