[logback-dev] [JIRA] Created: (LBGENERAL-40) Default behaviour with no config

[Paul Murray (JIRA)]

Default behaviour with no config
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                 Key: LBGENERAL-40
                 URL: http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBGENERAL-40
             Project: logback-general
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 0.9.14
            Reporter: Paul Murray
            Assignee: Logback dev list


One of our developers put logback in our project and didn't add a config file. This has killed our prod server for a week - 2 gig of hibernate debug messages per day, until I worked out WTF.

Log4j handles this situation by emitting a single message and producing no more output. This is a pain in the butt in development - because you always have to put a log4j config somewhere while coding - but now I understand why: it's built to be usable safely in a production environment.

I think you should consider altering the logback default behaviour to do what log4j does. Without that, it's a nervous business staging it on an internet-facing server.

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