RE: sending debug messages to console?

[Noel J. Bergman]

System.out can be changed via System.setOut(PrintStream), if you are so
inclined to have a log file attached, but I don't think that's at all what
you mean, since System.out DOES go to the "console."  And there is no "james
console", unless you mean a command window within which you launch james.
Which is generally a really bad idea for a service.

So at this point, I have no idea what you're talking about now.  However, if
you want to write your own Avalon logger subclass to write everything to
System.out instead of the log files, by all means do as you wish.
Personally, I think that it is bad idea.  There could be some useful
enhancements to Avalon's logging, e.g., support for log rotation, but
writing logs to the console when they can just as easily be presented via
tail makes little sense to me.

        --- Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Virender Dogra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 13:56
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: re: sending debug messages to console?


Thanks for the tip Noel. I will be using it for now.

Also I was wondering if someone knew how to specify a different target
in the file environment.xml (based on excalibur logger) to send a
System.out log  message to the james console instead of a file.

The following snippet seems to me to be the best point of attack. I
don't know how to modify this yet and so need the groups help here.

    <targets>
      <file id="pop3server-target">
        <filename>${app.home}/logs/pop3server.log</filename>
        <format>%{time:dd/MM/yy hh:mm:ss} %5.5{priority} %{category}:
%{message}\n%{throwable}</format>
        <append>true</append>
      </file>
      <file id="smtpserver-target">
        <filename>${app.home}/logs/smtpserver.log</filename>
        <format>%{time:dd/MM/yy hh:mm:ss} %5.5{priority} %{category}:
%{message}\n%{throwable}</format>
        <append>true</append>
      </file>

Thanks again,
Viru

From: Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sending debug messages to console?
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:11:18 -0400
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Viru,

On linux you can simply run "tail -f /opt/james/apps/james/logs/*" to
monitor the logs.  If you just want to monitor part of the system, just
monitor that log, e.g., smtpserver.log.  There is a patch submitted
(hopefully in the CVS soon) that if you are at INFO will emit:

 Successfully spooled mail from <sender> for <recipients>

for incoming mail.  If you are at DEBUG, you'll see the entire SMTP
transaction.

        --- Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Virender Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 15:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sending debug messages to console?


How can I get log messages to show up on the james cmd prompt console
when a email is received/delivered by the james server ? This helps me
easily take a peak at the console to see what it's doing.

Thanks,
Viru


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