Hi Ray,
Thanks for your suggestion. It worked.
Sathis
Ray Thomas wrote:
>This is anecdotal info so I thought I'd better reply off the mailing
>list... anyway...
>
>If you are using the default log4j.properties configuration file, you
>shouldn't need to specify the -D option when starting tomcat. Try
>removing that and the PropertyConfigurator calls, and letting log4j find
>the "default" config file automatically where you have it located in
>WEB-INF\classes\log4j.properties. Also, all the code you should need is
>the import, and Logger.getRootLogger(). This worked w/o troubles for
>me.
>
>-R
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sathiskumar Govindasamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:28 PM
>Subject: Log4J and Tomcat 4 - Newbie
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>I am very new to both Tomcat4 and Log4J. I have been using
>>
>apache-jserv
>
>>for a very long time and finally decided to jump into Tomcat. I found
>>tomcat doing the System.err logging to catalina.out file in
>>/vat/tomcat4/logs directory. I would like to leave whatever tomcat4
>>
>does
>
>>as it is. In addition to that I would like to use Log4J to log debug,
>>info, warning messages that are specific to different context. I have
>>gone through this mailing list's archeive and couldn't find any
>>reference to similar question. So, I am posting it.
>>
>>Here is what I have done
>>
>>in /etc/tomcat4/conf/tomcat4.conf file I added this
>>
>>export CATALINA_OPTS="-Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties"
>>
>>I have placed the log4j-core.jar, parser.jar, jaxp.jar files in
>>/var/tomcat4/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/lib/ directory
>>
>>I have the file log4j.properties in
>>/var/tomcat4/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/classes/ directory. Follwing is the
>>content of that file
>>
>>log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, A1
>>log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
>>log4j.appender.A1.File={CATALINA_HOME}/logs/myapp.log
>>log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>>log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r %-5p [%t] (%x) - %m\n
>>
>>In my servlet I have the follwoing lines
>>
>>import org.apache.log4j.*;
>>....
>>...
>>
>>
>>
>PropertyConfigurator.configure("/var/tomcat4/webapps/eis/WEB-INF/classes
>/log4j.properties");
>
>>
>PropertyConfigurator.configureAndWatch("/var/tomcat4/webapps/eis/WEB-INF
>/classes/log4j.properties");
>
>>
>>
>> // Initialize a logging category. Here, we
>>
>get
>
>>THE ROOT CATEGORY
>> //static Category cat = Category.getRoot();
>> // Or, get a custom category
>>
>> cat = Category.getRoot();
>> cat.setPriority(Priority.DEBUG);
>>
>> // From here on, log away! Methods are:
>>cat.debug(your_message_string),
>> // cat.info(...), cat.warn(...),
>>
>cat.error(...),
>
>>cat.fatal(...)
>> cat.debug("Testing the logger DEBUG");
>> cat.info("Testing the logger INFO");
>> cat.warn("Testing the logger WARN");
>> cat.error("Testing the logger ERROR");
>> cat.fatal("Testing the logger FATAL");
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>I am basically using tomcat4 as servlet container. myapp is my
>>
>context.
>
>>The servlet part of it working just fine. I does rest of the things
>>
>that
>
>>I have, except the log4j part. I have the tomcat4 threads that looks
>>like this
>>
>>tomcat4 30939 30938 0 16:26 ? 00:00:02
>>/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties
>>-Djava.endorsed.dirs= -cl
>>tomcat4 30940 30938 0 16:26 ? 00:00:00
>>/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties
>>-Djava.endorsed.dirs= -cl
>>tomcat4 30941 30938 0 16:26 ? 00:00:00
>>/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties
>>-Djava.endorsed.dirs= -cl
>>tomcat4 30942 30938 0 16:26 ? 00:00:00
>>/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties
>>-Djava.endorsed.dirs= -cl
>>tomcat4 30943 30938 0 16:26 ? 00:00:00
>>/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties
>>-Djava.endorsed.dirs= -cl
>>tomcat4 30944 30938 0 16:26 ? 00:00:00
>>/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties
>>-Djava.endorsed.dirs= -cl
>>tomcat4 30945 30938 0 16:26 ? 00:00:04
>>/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties
>>-Djava.endorsed.dirs= -cl
>>tomcat4 30948 30938 0 16:26 ? 00:00:00
>>/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties
>>-Djava.endorsed.dirs= -cl
>>tomcat4 30949 30938 0 16:26 ? 00:00:00
>>/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.properties
>>-Djava.endorsed.dirs= -cl
>>
>>I would greatly appreciate if you folks can help me out in configuring
>>this correctly. I wish the log4j documentation had more information on
>>installation of configuration with tomcat.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Sathis
>>
>>
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