How to configure Tomcat to log everything via syslog ?

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to configure Tomcat and a webapp (Atlassian JIRA) to log everything over syslog.

Here is what I added to the webapp log4j.properties (atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties) :

log4j.rootLogger=WARN, syslog log4j.appender.syslog=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender log4j.appender.syslog.facility=LOCAL0 log4j.appender.syslog.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p [%t] [%c]: %m%n log4j.appender.syslog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.syslog.SyslogHost=my.syslog.server.fqdn

However, nothing is sent over syslog. I sniffed outgoing packets on the port 514 and nothing appears.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Here is the solution I currently use :

1. I removed the conf/logging.properties file
2. I modified the atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties in order to disable all file logging operations, leaving only console logging
3. I modified catalina.sh in order to pipe its output to logger

I imagine this solution isn't java-world-compliant. But it's working.

However, I'm still looking for a cleaner way to log to syslog.