log4j

Log4j - Log Level per appender for a single Logger

Is it possible to configure different log levels for a single Logger based on the appender? I realise this is similar to this question, and this is as far as I had already got myself, but the problem with this is that the threshold applies to all loggers that log tp that appender, whereas I only want the threshold to apply to a single l...

Way to automatically detect wrong log4j static initialization

(Note that it's more of a Bash question than a Java question, see note below) When configuring log4j in each class, we do the following: public class Example { private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger( Example.class ); The problem is that we now have a medium-sized codebase (200K LOC) containing a lot of Java classes and...

How to view customized logs with Chainsaw?

We have customized appender (com.mycompany.log4j.XAppender) with customized layout (com.mycompany.log4j.XPatternLayout). While ChainSaw opens the log file, it keeps complaining: found non-matching line: . How to fix that? ...

Correct usage Of LOG4J in Spring Framework Via DI

Hi I am trying to use Log4j as part of the Spring Framework, as far as i understand through the use of a an appropriate bean the system is supposed to map a singleton instance accessible in the code while mapping the logging depth automatically to the class Similar to the normal use of Log4J as in Logger log = Logger.getLogger(getCla...

Log4j error when using unionserver for flash

Hey guys. I am getting the following output when i start my java union server - its a jar and i dont have access to the source code but i think this issue is a log4j properties file error as it works on windows, and not on linux. The error is: log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (net.user1.union.core.H). log4j:WARN Pleas...

Convert ASCII byte[] to String

Hi, I am trying to pass a byte[] containing ASCII characters to log4j, to be logged into a file using the obvious representation. When I simply pass in the byt[] it is of course treated as an object and the logs are pretty useless. When I try to convert them to strings using new String(byte[] data), the performance of my application is ...

Log4j Logger for Struts 2 Exception Interceptor

Which logger do I list in my log4j.xml to trap unhandled struts 2 exceptions? I have the following code declared in my struts.xml: <package name="default" extends="struts-default"> <interceptor-stack name="defaultStack"> <interceptor-ref name="timer"/> <interceptor-ref name="logger"/> <interceptor-ref name="exception...

Grails logging all to one file

I have an issue when i war my grails project to deploy on my production server there is a limitation that i only log to /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out. This means that i have to make every log including stacktrace write to that one file. I've tried following other examples and it just doesn't seem to work i still get the error "permission...

what's log4j actually doing when we turn on or off some log places?

We know we can config log4j to turn off log on specific places (class or package in Java) via its properties/configuration file. My questions are followed: what's log4j actually doing for those flags? is the log statement in log4j still called but just not being written to file or console because of that flag? so still have performanc...

java log4j.xml multiple appenders sharing a layout

Is there a way to configure a log4j.xml file to have multiple appenders share the same layout? I have copied the layout parameter into each of the appenders but it's a pain (and seems weird that I would need to do this) to update it in multiple places if the pattern changes. thanks, Jeff ...

Grails Log4j Issue

log4j = { appenders { appender new org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender(name: "friendsJob", datePattern: "'.'yyyy-MM-dd", file: "C:/temp/log/friends/friendsJob.log", layout: pattern(conversionPattern: '[%d{yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.SSS}] %p %c{5} %m%n') ) appender new org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender( name: "followerJob"...

Spring Unit/Intergration Testing setup

Hi Guru, I know I am bad, I didn't write unit testing and integration testing for my project. But know I am trying to be a good boy and I am having a hard time setting up the environment. So please help. =) I have my application context under WEB-INF/applicationContext*.xml and in my applicationContext.xml, it has a reference to a prop...

Hibernate EntityManager Factory - EHCache

Hi all, I am having more problems with getting the entity manager factory up and running. Unfortunately, the error message is very vague. I'm not quite sure why it's not more descriptive, but it is what it is: Hibernate Startup log messages (trace level), no entities configured for brevity (same error message either way except all th...

Grails WAR on Tomcat "Log4J" not working at all.

I have log4j DSL correctly configured in my Config.groovy in a grails applicaiton. Running the application with grails run-app dumps perfect logging as I specified in the DSL. However after doing a grails war to generate a war file and deploying it to tomcat, logging just disappears. I can't see it working anywhere, except tomcat console...

What's wrong with my log4j filter ? ( It make tomcat hang up ! )

Hi, We recently add a filter to our log4j configuration with a custom filter. The goal is to stop repeating the same log again and again, but replace it by : the log + "last line repeated x times" We have write the following filter, who works fine. But then, we have beggin to remark strange deadlock and hang up of tomcat5.5. When w...

How do I make Grails start a new log file on startup of the application?

Which log4j appender should I use and how do I configure it? I'm not too bothered about keeping old logs, so I don't care about truncating the existing one. ...

How to configure log4j with a properties file

How do I get log4j to pick up a properties file. I'm writing a Java desktop app which I want to use log4j. In my main method if have this: PropertyConfigurator.configure("log4j.properties"); The log4j.properties file sits in the same directory when I open the Jar. Yet I get this error: log4j:ERROR Could not read configurati...

java log4j INFO level problem

I am not sure what I could be doing wrong that causes info level messages not to appear. Here is the situation class LogTest { protected final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(getClass()); ... public void start() { logger.error(logger.isInfoEnabled()); logger.info("blah"); } ... ...

Is it possible to use jboss-log4j.xml located outside from JBOSS_HOME?

Is it possible to configure JBoss 5.x to use jboss-log4j.xml located outside from JBOSS_HOME? If yes - what should be changed? ...

How can I get log4j to print exceptions properly?

Hi, I am using log4j with tomcat. When I log exceptions in my JSPs, servlets: private Logger _log = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass()); ... try{...} catch (Exception e) { _log.error("Error refreshing all prices", e); } I only get the first line of the exception. 17-Feb 17:37:45 ERROR AutoContrib:175 - Exception while publishing...