Is it possible to change message format of messages written to standard out/err? I've tried the following, with no luck (no changes). Tomcat 5.5.9/JSK1.5.0 on Windows XP.
My formatter code is below... I built the jar using Eclipse 3.1 and tried putting it in both Tomcat5.5\common\lib and Tomcat5.5\server\lib. package com.rwd.log.learnTomcatLogFormatter; import java.util.Date; import java.util.logging.Formatter; import java.util.logging.Level; import java.util.logging.LogRecord; import java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter; public class LearnTomcatLogFormatter extends Formatter { public synchronized String format(LogRecord _arg0) { String retval = "Date[" + new Date(System.currentTimeMillis())+ "] Level[" + _arg0.getLevel() + "] Message[" + _arg0.getMessage() + "]"; return retval; } logging.properties ------------------------------------------------------------------ handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler .handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler ############################################################ # Handler specific properties. # Describes specific configuration info for Handlers. ############################################################ 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = catalina. 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = localhost. 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = manager. 4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = admin. 5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = host-manager. java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = FINE java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = com.rwd.log.learnTomcatLogFormatter.LearnTomcatLogFormatter