how to turn off tomcat5 'session expire' log messages?

Question

I've been trying to turn off these excessive log messages without success.

 INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/08/19 14:36:30 | DEBUG [ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]] (ManagerBase.java:677) - Start expire sessions StandardManager at 1282242990088 sessioncount 0
 INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/08/19 14:36:30 | DEBUG [ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]] (ManagerBase.java:685) - End expire sessions StandardManager processingTime 0 expired sessions: 0

I added the following line to my app's WEB-INF/logging.properties file.

org.apache.catalina.session.ManagerBase.level=WARNING

Is this right? Is there somewhere else that I need to put it?

Answer 1

From the source code of ManagerBase.java, that seems to be the right setting

protected Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ManagerBase.class);
....
 if(log.isDebugEnabled())
  log.debug("Start expire sessions " + getName() + " at " + timeNow + " sessioncount " + sessions.length);

I wonder if the logging.properties in the TOMCAT_HOME/conf/ is overriding the one in the WEB-INF

Can you change it there as well?