Hi Allistair,
Sorry to hear it hasn't been seamless to get going. We will be working
to improve Chainsaw's documentation. We probably haven't advertised
very well but there is a Chainsaw page with information here:
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/chainsaw.html
An easy way to tell if you are using Chainsaw v2: Chainsaw v2 is a a
tab-based UI and a has a 'welcome' tab (the contents of the 'welcome'
tab say Chainsaw V2). Also, there should be a help-about chainsaw v2
menu item.
There is an ant script available from the 'installation' section of the
link I provided. If you copy the install-chainsaw.xml ant script to
your local filesystem and run 'ant -f install-chainsaw.xml' from a
console, it should download everything you need and start Chainsaw
automatically.
There is a tutorial available on the 'welcome' tab. Click 'tutorial',
and a window will pop up, and select 'start tutorial'. That will
generate sample events and you can try filtering, sorting, colorizing,
etc..
Regarding your previous questions:
1. The link I provided and the tutorial are probably the best source of
Chainsaw v2 information currently available. If you have other
questions, feel free to ask. We'll work to improve this.
2. In Chainsaw v2, if you load an xmllayout-formatted log file, all of
the events for that file will be loaded on their own tab, based on the
filename. You can load multiple log files and they will each get their
own tab. If you load the same log file twice, you may get duplicate
events in the tab (hit ctrl-space to clear the events for the
appropriate tab prior to re-loading the log file). Chainsaw v2 can't
display events as they're written to a file ('tail').
If you have a problem loading a log file and you don't mind sending it
to me, feel free to send it to me via email directly and I'll look into
it.
Thanks for trying it out, feel free to send comments/feedback/questions
as you have them..
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Allistair Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Chainsaw GUI seems to be different to those I have seen ... am
i using v2?
Hi All,
My first experience with finding out how on earth to install/get
Chainsaw have not been great. I don't consider digging around on mail
archive boards to find out how to install good software to be very
useful. Nevertheless I did manage to find some threads that have allowed
me to compile and build and run Chainsaw.
I have since solved my last problem with the 0 events loaded. I did not
realise I needed an XMLLayout (again another hidden post on a mailing
list archive).
The GUI that I have in front of me is all grey. Earlier in my searching
for info on Chainsaw I noticed the GUI had icons for the severity levels
and looked a whole lot more usable. I am beginning to suspect I have
Chainsaw 1 and not 2 but do not know how that happened since I got the
source code from the CVS?
Could someone shed any light at all on this?
Thank you for your help,
ADC
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