[opencms-dev] problem with log4j - opencms_init.log

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:56:02AM -0500, eelboy at aol.com wrote:
> I am new to OpenCms, so take my post lightly :)  Running my tomcat as 
> ROOT webapp (as well as root user):

Thanks for confirming my observations and good to know that I'm not
alone. Wonder what the OpenCMS developers have to say about it :-)


--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de

> 
> It seemed to me that this file (opencms_init.log) was being placed in 
> whatever
> directory I was in at the time that I started tomcat.  I have never seen 
> any data in this file (always size 0). I finally
> decided that I would rather not have them sprayed around my file system 
> so I went into the log4j.properties and
> made this change:

You did that in $(CATALINA_HOME)/common/classes/log4j.properties? 
Or does opencms have a place for this?

> 
> opencms.set.logfile=true
> opencms.logfile=${catalina.base}/logs/opencms_init.log


> 
> What I expected then was to see this file in the tomcat logs directory.  
> But, to my surprise , it simply doesn't
> get created anymore.  I don't get any errors in any other log files 
> though, so that was good enough for me.
> I would love to know what the developers intended to write to this 
> file.  (The remaining configuration in
> the log4j.properties seems to work fine and is logging normally to the 
> file that I have specified).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> eelboy
> 
> 
> On 12/9/2010 10:40 AM, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > I'm resurrecting a site which runs under Debian (squeeze) and after
> > having tamed tomcat6 and had filled ~/webapps/ROOT (running opencms as
> > the ROOT app with the rewrite rules and http-proxies) again from the
> > backup, I'm seeing some ERROR message in catalina.out.
> >
> > I also have log4j enabled, for what it's worth. Maybe it has got to do with
> > it. I wonder what's triggering opencms_init.log since I only found
> > it randomly in some places and there doesn't seem to be any pattern where
> > it should be located.
> >
> > The permission problem could stem from the fact that tomcat is running under
> > user tomcat6 and it might be it wants to read or write a file w/o permissions.
> >
> >
> > log4j.properties: -------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, R
> >              log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
> >              log4j.appender.R.File=${catalina.home}/logs/tomcat.log
> >              log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=10MB
> >              log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=10
> >              log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
> >              log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n
> >
> >
> > catalina.out: -----------------------------------------
> >
> > INFO: Deploying web application directory ROOT
> > log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
> > java.io.FileNotFoundException: opencms_init.log (Permission denied)
> >      at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method)
> >      at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:177)