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Ok then I don't have any more advice because I hadn't used that appender.

On 8/14/06, theMonkyBoy <nabble.com@vellosa.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
>
> James Stauffer wrote:
> >
> > You only showed your appender config.  Are you use the messages are
> > getting to the appender.
> >
>
>
> Here is my complete log4j.xml configuration file:
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
>
> <log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
>
>         <appender name="SYSLOG" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender">
>                 <param name="SyslogHost" value="localhost"/>
>                 <param name="Facility" value="USER"/>
>                 <param name="FacilityPrinting" value="true"/>
>                 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
>                         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%p: %c - %m"/>
>                 </layout>
>         </appender>
>
>         <appender name="STDOUT" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
>                 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
>                         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n"/>
>                 </layout>
>         </appender>
>
>         <appender name="LOGFILE" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender">
>           <param name="File" value="/tmp/log4j.log" />
>                 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
>                         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n"/>
>                 </layout>
>         </appender>
>
>         <root>
>                 <level value="debug"/>
>                 <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
>                 <appender-ref ref="LOGFILE"/>
>                 <appender-ref ref="SYSLOG"/>
>         </root>
>
> </log4j:configuration>
>
>
> I am getting messages to the console and also in the log file, so I am
> assuming that the log4j config is working and therefore something on the
> syslog-ng side isn't configured as it should be.
>
>
>
>
> James Stauffer wrote:
> >
> > If you run with -Dlog4j.debug it might give you helpful info.
> >
>
> Thanks for the debug tip, I was completely unaware of that one. This is the
> console output when running with the debug flag set. As you can see at the
> end my log4j messages are output:
>
> log4j: Trying to find [log4j.xml] using context classloader
> sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@136228.
> log4j: Using URL [file:/cc.project/log4j/target/classes/log4j.xml] for
> automatic log4j configuration.
> log4j: Preferred configurator class: org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator
> log4j: System property is :null
> log4j: Standard DocumentBuilderFactory search succeded.
> log4j: DocumentBuilderFactory is:
> org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
> log4j: debug attribute= "null".
> log4j: Ignoring debug attribute.
> log4j: Threshold ="null".
> log4j: Level value for root is  [debug].
> log4j: root level set to DEBUG
> log4j: Class name: [org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender]
> log4j: Parsing layout of class: "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"
> log4j: Setting property [conversionPattern] to [%d [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n].
> log4j: Adding appender named [STDOUT] to category [root].
> log4j: Class name: [org.apache.log4j.FileAppender]
> log4j: Setting property [file] to [/tmp/log4j-syslog.log].
> log4j: Parsing layout of class: "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"
> log4j: Setting property [conversionPattern] to [%d [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n].
> log4j: setFile called: /tmp/log4j-syslog.log, true
> log4j: setFile ended
> log4j: Adding appender named [LOGFILE] to category [root].
> log4j: Class name: [org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender]
> log4j: Setting property [syslogHost] to [localhost].
> log4j: Setting property [facility] to [USER].
> log4j: Setting property [facilityPrinting] to [true].
> log4j: Parsing layout of class: "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"
> log4j: Setting property [conversionPattern] to [%p: %c - %m].
> log4j: Adding appender named [SYSLOG] to category [root].
> 2006-08-14 17:18:04,574 [main] DEBUG ch.cablecom.log4j.LogStuff  - Hello
> world!
> 2006-08-14 17:18:04,577 [main] INFO  ch.cablecom.log4j.LogStuff  - Hello
> world!
> 2006-08-14 17:18:04,578 [main] WARN  ch.cablecom.log4j.LogStuff  - Hello
> world!
> 2006-08-14 17:18:04,578 [main] ERROR ch.cablecom.log4j.LogStuff  - Hello
> world!
> 2006-08-14 17:18:04,578 [main] FATAL ch.cablecom.log4j.LogStuff  - Hello
> world!
>
>
>
>
>
> James Stauffer wrote:
> >
> > On 8/14/06, theMonkyBoy <nabble.com@vellosa.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> sorry for this post, but I've been searching for a couple of days now and
> >> found nothing to help me get started via google!
> >>
> >> In our environment we currently have a cluster of J2EE servers, where
> >> each
> >> member writes to their own log file. Now we would like to also write to
> >> one
> >> consolidated log file. So it has been envisaged that each cluster member
> >> writes to their own syslog-ng deamon, who then in turn forwards messages
> >> on
> >> to a central logging server.
> >>
> >> I have a couple of problems here. Reading through the posts I have seen
> >> people are using the SyslogAppender to get log4j to write to the
> >> syslog-nd
> >> deamon. I have tried two configurations for this.
> >>
> >>
> >> <appender name="SYSLOG" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender">
> >>         <param name="SyslogHost" value="127.0.0.1"/>
> >>         <param name="Facility" value="USER"/>
> >>         <param name="FacilityPrinting" value="true"/>
> >>         <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
> >>                 <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%p: %c - %m"/>
> >>         </layout>
> >> </appender>
> >>
> >> and:
> >>
> >> log4j.appender.SYSLOG=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender
> >> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.syslogHost=127.0.0.1
> >> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.Facility=USER
> >> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
> >> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout.ConversionPattern=%p: %c - %m
> >>
> >>
> >> I then try to use a very simple program to print to this appender:
> >>
> >>
> >> package com.foo.bar;
> >>
> >> import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
> >>
> >> public class LogStuff
> >> {
> >>   Logger log = Logger.getLogger( LogStuff.class );
> >>
> >>   public static void main(String [] argv)
> >>   {
> >>     new LogStuff().doIt();
> >>   }
> >>
> >>   private void doIt()
> >>   {
> >>     log.debug( "Hello world!" );
> >>     log.info( "Hello world!" );
> >>     log.warn( "Hello world!" );
> >>     log.error( "Hello world!" );
> >>     log.fatal( "Hello world!" );
> >>   }
> >> }
> >>
> >>
> >> When I then check the syslog-ng files I find nothing in there. So I guess
> >> there is some configuration to do on that side.
> >>
> >> So I started to hack the syslog-ng.conf file.
> >>
> >> source s_j2ee { unix-stream("/dev/log"); internal(); };
> >> destination d_j2ee { file("/var/log/j2ee.log"); };
> >> log { source(s_j2ee); destination(d_j2ee); };
> >>
> >> As some of the internal syslog-ng messages are arriving in my log file I
> >> assume that some of this configuration is correct. However, as no java
> >> messages are being received I assume that I've not set up the source
> >> correctly.
> >>
> >> Through all my searched I was unable to find the source that log4j will
> >> use.
> >> Can someone point me in the right direction?
> >>
> >> Are there any good resources available that I can read?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for your help
> >>
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