You might want to consider using log4j (another jakarta project). Its manual
has brief converage of using it with tomcat, although I must admit up to now
I've only used Log4j in standalone applications.
sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kimmo Hovi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Remote logging?
> I was wondering if it is possible to use a logging method
> other than "append to file", which seems to be the format
> favored by tomcat and server.xml.
>
> direct syslogd interface would be the most appropriate. I
> have a configuration where a log.host computer is running
> syslog-ng (Thus logging incoming udp datagrams on port 514),
> and ideally all remote computers would be set up to use
> just their own syslog, using it to forward the required
> parts of the local logs to this log.host.
>
> So, is it possible to somehow configure tomcat to use
> either a pipe to logger, or directly talking to syslogd?
>
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