No error message, no output and the machine does not catch fire.
The hostname is indeed replaced with the machine hostname where the syslog
daemon is running.
I almost assumed that the syslog is setup to accept messages from the
network. I will check with the admins.
Thanks
Douglas E Wegscheid wrote:
>
> "it does not work": no output? error message? exception? machine catches
> on fire?
>
> make sure that your syslog is set up to receive from the network (default
> port udp port 514) , and not just /dev/log.
>
> 'hostname' is indeed the name of the machine running the syslog daemon?
>
>
> Douglas E Wegscheid
> Lead Technical Analyst, Whirlpool Corporation
> (269)-923-5278
>
> "A wrong note played hesitatingly is a wrong note. A wrong note played
> with conviction is interpretation."
>
>
>
> DASHGIR <sandeep.mo...@fiserv.com> wrote on 06/26/2009 08:41:57 AM:
>
>>
>> I am trying to use SyslogAppender for Linux and AIX. It does not work.
>> This is my properties file
>>
>> log4j.info=true
>> log4j.rootLogger=INFO, FILE, SYSLOG
>> log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
>> log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>> log4j.appender.FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.syslogHost=hostname
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout.ConversionPattern=%p: %c - %m
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.Facility=USER
>>
>> The code which uses it is simple
>>
>> public static void main(String[] args) {
>> // TODO Auto-generated method stub
>> PropertyConfigurator.configure("log.properties");
>>
>> Logger logger =
> Logger.getLogger(SyslogAppenderTest.class.getName());
>>
>>
>> logger.info("******This test message******");
>> }
>>
>> The syslog.conf contains the entry
>>
>> user.info /var/log/syslogtest.log
>>
>>
>>
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