On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Peter Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been able to get the syslog appender to work, with one exception. > For our Java apps that use log4j, I have set up a custom entry in > /etc/syslog.conf for the local7 facility so that messages targeting this > facility are all logged to a custom log file. In my log4j config file I > simply have to set the Facility parameter to LOCAL7 to have log messages > directed to this custom log file. This doesn't seem to work for log4cxx. > I tried setting Facility to LOCAL7 and the log messages disappeared. It > seems I have to use DAEMON, and this directs log messages to > /var/log/messages. I'd prefer to have log4cxx send log messages to the > same LOCAL7 log file that we use for our Java apps. Any suggestions on > how to accomplish this? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Steele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:30 AM > To: Log4CXX User > Subject: RE: Using the syslog appender in log4cxx > >>While this version is no longer supported by the developers, the > following >>syslog appender works on my Debian systems running 0.9.7: > > Thanks for the xml snippet, I'll give this a try. And we may very well > upgrade to the latest version, but we have 65+ machines with 0.9.7 so > it's a bit of a job to get everything upgraded... > >>To troubleshoot, I'd start simple and go forward. Verify the rest of > your >>log4cxx.xml is correct by making sure it will log to the console and > then to a >>file. Then I'd try simpler syslog configurations without filters, error > handlers >>and using localhost. > > Right now file and console logging work fine, it's just the syslog > appender that's causing us problems, even using localhost without > filters. Hopefully your xml code will do the trick. > >>Going forward from there use tools like logger(1) to verify >>your facility, sysloghost and other settings. > > I'm not familiar with logger; I'll have to check it out. Thanks. > > Peter > >
That is a bug in version 0.10.0 Local 2 and higher was not implemented correctly. See this difference to see the cut-and-paste error: <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4cxx/trunk/src/main/cpp/syslogappender.cpp?r1=613005&r2=654960&pathrev=654960&diff_format=l> It has already been fixed in the trunk version of the repository. See this revision: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=654960 -- Dale King
