[opencms-dev] No opencms.log file in version 9.5?

[Kai Widmann]

Hi Christoph,

now it gets really confusing. My log4j.properties also points to opencms_init.log, but still OpenCms logs to opencms.log, opencms_init.log doesn't exist on my system.
There is some documentation in log4j.properties:

# OpenCms provides a special variable ${opencms.logfile} to the environment, which contains
# the log file path. The location of this file is calculated relative to this
# "log4j.properties" file on OpenCms startup. If this file is located in the folder "${classes}",
# then the log is written to "${classes}../logs/opencms.log".
# To disable this mechanism, you must set ${opencms.set.logfile} to "false". In this case
# you must configure the log output file manually.

If I understand this correctly, then the Logfile configured in log4j.properties as "opencms.logfile" is only used if "opencms.set.logfile" is set to false.

Maybe there is some different behavior because I'm using Tomcat 7 and you are using Tomcat 6?

Cheers

Kai


Von: Christoph Kukulies [mailto:kuku at physik.rwth-aachen.de]
Gesendet: Freitag, 16. Januar 2015 09:22
An: Kai Widmann; The OpenCms mailing list
Betreff: Re: [opencms-dev] No opencms.log file in version 9.5?

Hi Kai,

I also did a full install 9.5.0 yesterday once again. It's time to write automatic scripts that copy back in
all my configuration files :)

You are right, that opencms.log is in it's right place. But it has 0 bytes and date stamp is 18.02.2014.

Instead every logging goes into opencms_init.log which is (IMHO) not in the right place when  OpenCms
puts everything into the tomcat root:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0>ls -l
total 22928
-rwx------+ 1 Administratoren None     57695 Nov 14 11:05 LICENSE
-rwx------+ 1 Administratoren None       783 Nov 14 11:05 NOTICE
-rwx------+ 1 Administratoren None     67272 Jan 14 18:27 Uninstall.exe
drwx------+ 1 Administratoren None         0 Jan 14 18:20 bin
drwx------+ 1 Administratoren None         0 Jan 15 15:49 conf
drwx------+ 1 Administratoren None         0 Jan 14 18:20 lib
drwx------+ 1 Administratoren None         0 Jan 15 10:41 logs
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 1584752 Jan 16 09:00 opencms-search.log
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2097206 Jan 16 08:58 opencms-search.log.1
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2097306 Jan 16 08:55 opencms-search.log.2
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2097190 Jan 15 17:14 opencms-search.log.3
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2097205 Jan 15 17:13 opencms-search.log.4
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2097927 Jan 15 17:13 opencms-search.log.5
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM  630573 Jan 16 08:55 opencms_init.log
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2098376 Jan 16 08:55 opencms_init.log.1
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2099588 Jan 16 08:55 opencms_init.log.2
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2097974 Jan 16 08:55 opencms_init.log.3
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2098564 Jan 16 08:55 opencms_init.log.4
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 2100005 Jan 16 08:55 opencms_init.log.5
drwx------+ 1 Administratoren None         0 Jan 15 16:58 temp
-rwx------+ 1 Administratoren None     21630 Nov 14 11:05 tomcat.ico
drwx------+ 1 Administratoren None         0 Jan 15 12:57 webapps
drwx------+ 1 Administratoren None         0 Jan 14 18:27 work

I'm assuming that WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties is the right file where the log4j configuration goes. And it starts with:
opencms.set.logfile=true
opencms.logfile=opencms_init.log


Am 15.01.2015 um 17:41 schrieb Kai Widmann:
Hi Christoph,

I have a clean install of OpenCms 9.5 and opencms.log is exactly where it has always been (under WEB-INF/logs). Did you do an update?
Maybe we should compare out log4j.properties?

Cheers

Kai

Von: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org<mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Christoph Kukulies
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2015 09:10
An: opencms-dev at opencms.org<mailto:opencms-dev at opencms.org>
Betreff: Re: [opencms-dev] No opencms.log file in version 9.5?

Am 14.01.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Tom Wolf:
Yeah, as I mentioned in this thread - the log is now written to the Tomcat's root directory under the name: opencms_init.log

This is true and I also pointed this out in a previous message here that these logfiles clobber tomcats root directory. Not very nice.
But actually it is opencms.log  which seems to have disappeared and I believe (not sure though) that the output goes into one of
tomcats various stdout/stderr/localhost files.




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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:08:03 +0100
From: antoniocordeddu at coranto.it<mailto:antoniocordeddu at coranto.it>
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org<mailto:opencms-dev at opencms.org>
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] No opencms.log file in version 9.5?
Hi Tom,

I have the same problem on my OpenCms 9.5 installation on Windows 7, Apache Tomcat 7.0.42.
Similar problem has been notified by Christoph Kukulies in this mailing list (see email "setting up proper logging (log4j) in opencms 9.5.0 on 5 January 2015).

Have you solved the issue?
Someone else has encountered the same problem?

Antonio Cordeddu


On 04/11/2014 14:24, Tom Wolf wrote:
Is it just me?


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