Radovan,
LogUtil.dll
This has some custom logging as well as log4net dll reference and uses a custom
appender to log. This is where I perform
Myservice.exe has the following dll's that it uses
- Dosomething.dl -à uses Logutil.dll and is included as a reference.
- Myservice.exe.app.config
>From your information, I assume I should do this in LogUtil.dll and in the
>default cstor of Logutil, I should obtain the path to the
>myservice.exe.app.config path and set it.
log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(LogUtil)); in the cstor
Myservice.exe does not need to do any logging, only DoSomething library needs
to perform the logging.
The error I get is a generic .Net framework error showing all the assemblies
which caused the error which may be due to versioning but the logs do not
indicate this. So I did a clean install and that error was no longer the case
but then it came down to just a system violation error each time I try to
perform xmlconfigurator.configure() in the default cstor of the Myservice.
Thanks
From: Radovan Raszka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 4:32 PM
To: Log4NET User
Subject: RE: Log4net in a windows service
I configure log4net in main service class constructor. What kind of crash have
you met - any exception (what?) ?
public class IPservice : ServiceBase
{ ...
public IPservice()
{
InitializeComponent();
this.CanPauseAndContinue = false;
this.CanShutdown = true;
this.CanHandleSessionChangeEvent = false;
this.AutoLog = false;
this.ServiceName = IPservice.SrvName;
XmlConfigurator.Configure();
log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(IPservice));
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args){ ...}
protected override void OnStop() {...}
}
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From: Jeegnesh Sheth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:36 PM
To: Log4NET User
Subject: RE: Log4net in a windows service
Radovan,
Myservice.exe has the following:
Default cstor
A main entry point into process, named main
Onstart and onstop methods
If I place the XMlConfiguartor.configure() in any of the methods above,
my applications keeps crashing. Is there something I am missing? I am trying to
use your first solution.
Many thanks
From: Radovan Raszka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 3:58 PM
To: Log4NET User
Subject: RE: Log4net in a windows service
Ok, there is also dependency on where log4net is set up.
Examples in my last mail works, if log4net is configured from
Myservice.exe (not from DLL), and config is stored in Myservice.exe.config (you
add app.config to the project, but Visual studio copies this file to the output
folder as <projectname>.exe.config, what is correct)
If configuration is done from DLL, then logutil.DLL.config probably can
not be used (at least it didn't work for me and I was told that application
file is always searched as <processname>.exe.config), so save config into
Myservice.exe.config or use second example.
Radovan
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From: Jeegnesh Sheth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:22 PM
To: Log4NET User
Subject: RE: Log4net in a windows service
Radovan,
This is how my application is set up
LogUtil.dll
This has some custom logging as well as log4net dll reference
and uses a custom appender to log
Myservice.exe has the following dll's that it uses
- Logutil.dll
- Dosomething.dl
- Myservice.exe.app.config
Dosomthing.dll instantiates logutil.dll to write the logs.
I tried putting your xmlconfigurator.configure in logutil.dll
and that did not work
I then tried placing it in dosomething.dll which did not work
Placing it in myservice.exe did not produce anything
Thoughts/ suggestions?
From: Radovan Raszka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:41 AM
To: Log4NET User
Subject: RE: Log4net in a windows service
there are 2 option:
1/ XmlConfigurator.Configure();
this configures log4net using app.config file, which must be in
this form:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
</configSections>
<appSettings>
....
</appSettings>
<log4net>
....
</log4net>
</configuration>
This is probably best solution as you have only one config file
for both application and log4net.
2/ configure log4net using extra XML file
XmlConfigurator.Configure(new System.IO.FileInfo(GetAppPath() +
"log4net.xml"))
.....
public string GetAppPath()
{
string myPath =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
int i = myPath.LastIndexOf('\\');
return myPath.Remove(i + 1);
}
Both solutions works well with service, but when log4net config
is changed, you must restart your service.
