[logback-user] Trouble setting up logback in tomcat.

[Ceki Gülcü]

Hello Marten,

I suggest you give the following config file a try:

<configuration debug="true">
   <appender name="efx" 
class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
     <File>${catalina.home}/logs/efx.log</File>
     <Append>false</Append>
     <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
       <fileNamePattern>${catalina.home}/logs/efx.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>
     </rollingPolicy>

     <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
       <pattern>%d %-5p [%logger] %msg%n</pattern>
     </layout>
   </appender>

   <appender name="stdout" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
     <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
       <pattern>%d %-5p [%logger] %msg%n</pattern>
     </layout>
   </appender>

   <!-- Performance interceptor -->
   <logger 
name="org.springframework.aop.interceptor.PerformanceMonitorInterceptor">
     <level value="DEBUG"/>
   </logger>

   <!--
    Logging for framework components.
    -->
   <logger name="org.springframework">
     <level value="DEBUG"/>
   </logger>
   <logger name="org.springframework.webflow">
     <level value="DEBUG"/>
   </logger>
   <logger name="httpclient.wire">
     <level value="WARN"/>
   </logger>
   <logger name="org.codehaus.xfire">
     <level value="WARN"/>
   </logger>
   <logger name="net.sf.ehcache">
     <level value="WARN"/>
   </logger>
   <logger name="org.apache">
     <level value="WARN"/>
   </logger>
   <logger name="org.acegisecurity">
     <level value="INFO"/>
   </logger>
   <logger name="org.quartz">
     <level value="WARN"/>
   </logger>
   <logger name="org.hibernate">
     <level value="WARN"/>
   </logger>

   <root>
     <level value="INFO"/>
     <appender-ref ref="efx"/>
     <appender-ref ref="stdout"/>
   </root>
</configuration>

Compared to your config file, the above file

1) does not have <appender-ref> elements within <logger> definitions.
2) has the threshold option for the "efx" appender the removed (logback 
does not support thresholds although it supports filters)
3) the options for "efx" are listed before <rollingPolicy> element
4) the the <fileNamePattern> element contains 
"${catalina.home}/logs/efx.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log" instead of just yyyy-MM-dd

Hope this helps,

At 04:32 PM 12/20/2006, you wrote:
>Hello Marten,
>
>I've checked your configuration file, and it is almost ok.
>When configuring a RollingFileAppender, one option that needs to be given is
>the fileNamePattern. It is used to know how to rename files after the 
>rollover has occured.
>
>Your configuration files does contain the element, but its value was 
>incorrect, here is something that you might use:
>
><rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
>   <param name="fileNamePattern" value="efx%d{yyyy-MM-dd}" />
></rollingPolicy>
>
>The absence of the %d{} around the date pattern is something that could 
>cause logback not to configure itself correctly. It is something that is 
>pretty different from log4j, which uses elements like:
>
>log4j.appender.R.datePattern=.yyyy-MM-dd
>
>without %d{} around the date pattern.
>
>Our properties translator webapp actually translates correctly many 
>different log4j configurations, but cannot inspect the values that the 
>user choose to correct them... yet. :)
>
>When configuring logback, you might try to add an attribute to the 
>configuration element like this:
>
><configuration debug="true">
>...
></configuration>
>
>It will ouput the statuses of logback after it has configured itself from 
>your configuration file. Status objects are a part of logback's powerful 
>error reporting framework. It allows users to see what's going on in 
>logback. By using the debug attribute, you would have seen this in the console:
>
>|-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter at 544ec1 - Exception in 
>Action for tag [rollingPolicy] java.lang.IllegalStateException: 
>FileNamePattern [yyyy-MM-dd] does not contain a valid DateToken
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Sébastien
>
>
>
>Marten Deinum wrote:
>>Hello Sébastien,
>>Thanks for taking the time to respond.
>>
>>Sébastien Pennec wrote:
>>>I've seen that you put commons-logging-1.1.jar *and*
>>>jcl104-over-slf4j-1.1.0-RC1.jar in commons/lib directory.
>>>...
>>>On the other hand, intercepting Tomcat's own *internal* logging is
>>>something that we do not recommand at this time.
>>That was one of the many feeble attemps to get logging working for our
>>application, however I already removed them and now have just the logging
>>tomcat provides (for tomcat that is). So no tomcat logging is going thru
>>slf4j at the moment.
>>
>>Sébastien Pennec wrote:
>>>The information I gave you should allow you to configure and use logback
>>>as your logging implementation, for your application.
>>I tried it with the jars and configuration you mentioned, however I still
>>have no logging :-(.
>>Currently I have the following logging jars and configuration
>>WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-api-1.1.0-RC1.jar
>>WEB-INF/lib/logback-core-0.7.1.jar
>>WEB-INF/lib/logback-classic-0.7.1.jar
>>WEB-INF/lib/jcl104-over-slf4j-1.1.0-RC1.jar (we use some libraries in our
>>web-app which use/require commons-logging)
>>WEB-INF/classes/logback.xml
>>Here is the contents of my  http://www.nabble.com/file/4968/logback.xml
>>logback.xml  file. It might be a configuration issue then? The configuration
>>you see is the one generated (almost) with the configuration tool on the
>>logback website. In the config I intentionally set the org.springframework
>>logging to debug, it generates lots of debugging output, but alas I see
>>none, not even a file is generated.
>>Thanks again, kind regards,
>>  Marten
>
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>sebastien at qos.ch
>
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