Windows Service and Logging

[Chris Campbell <cc...@quaris.com>]

Logging (log4j) works fine for my servlets in Tomcat 5.5 until I run
Tomcat as a service on windows, in which case I only get stdout, stderr
and jakarta_service logs.

The FAQ on the apache tomcat site has an entry for this problem, but the
link to its solution in the archives is broken, and I cannot find the
question in the archives.

Can someone point me to the right link or give me the solution?

Thanks in advance

Chris




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Re: Windows Service and Logging

[Chris Campbell <cc...@quaris.com>]

I found a solution if anyone is interested ( and maybe its the solution
at the broken link in the FAQ? )

When I first setup my log4j appenders I used relative paths from the
tomcat bin directory to the logs directory ( silly me )

I had log4j.appender.server.file=../logs/server.log

which works fine with the startup.bat, but the windows service seems to
need the full path, so following the convention in logging.properties :

log4j.appender.server.file=${catalina.base}/logs/server.log

And now Tomcat running as windows service writes out the log files I
have configured.

Chris Campbell wrote:
> Logging (log4j) works fine for my servlets in Tomcat 5.5 until I run
> Tomcat as a service on windows, in which case I only get stdout, stderr
> and jakarta_service logs.
> 
> The FAQ on the apache tomcat site has an entry for this problem, but the
> link to its solution in the archives is broken, and I cannot find the
> question in the archives.
> 
> Can someone point me to the right link or give me the solution?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
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