Hi Jason, Glad that helped - there are a lot of new features - feedback welcome.
The latest developer snapshot isn't available via webstart, but if you pushed Chainsaw to your own web server, yes, the first arg Chainsaw accepts is a URL to a configuration file (you can use this feature to create different aliases in Windows etc.). Scott On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Stein, Jason <jason.st...@vertexgroup.com>wrote: > Thank you, Scott, that worked great. Now my next wish is this:**** > > ** ** > > Since I have about 50 Test/QA JBoss environments, to use JNLP to start > Chainsaw and have the appropriate configurations automatically loaded for > each environment, depending upon which jnlp link one clicks.**** > > ** ** > > Is that possible? **** > > ** ** > > *From:* Scott Deboy [mailto:scott.de...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, January 17, 2013 1:55 PM > *To:* Log4J Developers List > *Subject:* Re: Chainsaw v2 Log viewer**** > > ** ** > > Latest developer snapshot is available here: > http://people.apache.org/~sdeboy**** > > ** ** > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Scott Deboy <scott.de...@gmail.com> > wrote:**** > > If you aren't already, I'd suggest trying the latest developer snapshot.** > ** > > It has built-in support for generating a Chainsaw configuration from a > fileappender/conversionpattern:**** > > - File, load Chainsaw configuration menu**** > > - Use fileappender entries from a log4j config file (can be .properties > or .xml)**** > > - Select the 'open file' button and browse to your log4j configuration > file containing the fileappender entries**** > > - Optionally select 'always start Chainsaw with this' and probably 'Save > configuration as'**** > > Let me know if that doesn't work.**** > > If you are having problems, you can always use 'MESSAGE' as your > logformat, which will not parse the line at all, just write the entire line > to the 'MESSAGE' field.**** > > > Scott**** > > ** ** > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Stein, Jason <jason.st...@vertexgroup.com> > wrote:**** > > ** ** > > I’m trying to get Chainsaw up and running with our Jboss application. > We’re currently using a JBoss log4j log which has a conversion pattern > that looks like this:**** > > **** > > <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{DATE} %-5p [%c{1},%X{host}] > [%-10X{username}][%t] %m%n"/>**** > > **** > > As a result of not knowing exactly what logformat to use for this, I was > getting a message which stated that there were no matching lines, and then > it would show the log message that wasn’t matching.**** > > **** > > Then, in order to get Chainsaw to work, I created a separate conversion > pattern (in a separate appender) which was detailed in your tutorial like > this:**** > > **** > > <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%t] %C{2} (%F:%L) - %m%n"/> > **** > > **** > > And used the logformat of TIMESTAMP LEVEL [THREAD] CLASS (FILE:LINE) – > MESSAGE **** > > Like I said, hoping to simply get something in the chainsaw-log…**** > > **** > > All I’m getting is messages that say “no further lines to process”, rather > than any real log messages. As a matter of fact, I don’t see ANY real > log messages, just chainsaw-logs.**** > > **** > > What I was hoping I could do was use Chainsaw as a better log viewer – > instead of using TextPad or Notepad++ .**** > > **** > > Any help would be very much appreciated.**** > > **** > > **** > > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > The information contained in this e-mail and its attachments are > confidential to the intended recipient and may be legally privileged or > otherwise protected from disclosure. If you have received this message in > error,you must not print this email or its attachments. Please notify the > sender immediately and delete the message and any attachments from your > computer. The unauthorized use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this > message is forbidden. Emails are not secure and may contain viruses. Vertex > accepts no responsibility for viruses; it is your responsibility to scan or > otherwise check this email and any attachments. **** > > ** ** > > ** ** >
