Need help with Chainsaw and VFSLogFilePatternReceiver

[Giancarlo V Martinez <gv...@us.ibm.com>]

All,

I have done extensive searching on this topic and now I am at a dead end.
Just bear with me and I will tell you all the things I have tried.

For some reason I cannot setup a VFSLogFilePatternReceiver in Chainsaw.  It
can never connect to the file.

I am on two windows servers, one running WAS with a file appender running,
and the other with Chainsaw using a VFSLogFilePatternReceiver.  I can sftp
from the command line, on the server with chainsaw, so I know I have
network connectivity, and the file can be accessed by all.

I have downloaded all the necessary jar files.  Here is a listing of my
chainsaw directory:
 Directory of C:\tools\downloads\chainsaw

03/03/2006  09:58 AM    <DIR>          .
03/03/2006  09:58 AM    <DIR>          ..
03/03/2006  09:58 AM               401 chainsaw.bat
02/02/2006  06:22 PM               375 chainsaw.sh
02/02/2006  06:22 PM            25,317 commons-logging-api.jar
06/15/2004  09:29 PM            38,015 commons-logging.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM           310,823 commons-vfs-1.0-RC3.jar
03/02/2006  06:07 PM               905 configuration.xml
02/02/2006  06:22 PM            71,406 jakarta-oro-2.0.6.jar
03/03/2006  09:57 AM           118,732 jsch-0.1.25.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM           356,733 log4j-1.3alpha-7.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM           692,429 log4j-chainsaw-2.0alpha-1.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM             7,024 log4j-chainsaw-vfs.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM            29,254 log4j-db-1.3alpha-7.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM            13,894 log4j-jms-1.3alpha-7.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM            33,080 log4j-optional-1.3alpha-7.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM            35,028 log4j-oro-1.3alpha-7.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM             9,072 log4j-smtp-1.3alpha-7.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM            22,306 log4j-xml-1.3alpha-7.jar
02/02/2006  06:22 PM           265,396 xstream-1.1.2.jar

I have included the necessary jar files in the chainsaw classpath:
java -classpath commons-logging-api.jar;
commons-logging.jar;
commons-vfs-1.0-RC3.jar;
jsch-0.1.25.jar;
jakarta-oro-2.0.6.jar;
log4j-1.3alpha-7.jar;log4j-chainsaw-2.0
alpha-1.jar;log4j-chainsaw-vfs.jar;log4j-db-1.3alpha-7.jar;log4j-jms-1.3
alpha-7.jar;log4j-optional-1.3alpha-7.jar;log4j-oro-1.3
alpha-7.jar;log4j-smtp-1.3alpha-7.jar;log4j-xml-1.3
alpha-7.jar;xstream-1.1.2.jar org.apache.log4j.chainsaw.LogUI

And I have setup my chainsaw configuration per examples from previous
posts.  Here is my chainsaw configuration.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration >
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/"
debug="true">
   <appender name="A2" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
      <layout class="org.apache.log4j.SimpleLayout"/>
   </appender>

   <plugin name="VFSLogFileReceiver"
class="org.apache.log4j.chainsaw.vfs.VFSLogFilePatternReceiver">
     <param name="fileURL"
value="sftp://user:pass@host:22/cygdrive/c/Apps/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/logs/server1/log.xml"/>
     <param name="timestampFormat" value="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS"/>
     <param name="logFormat" value="TIMESTAMP LEVEL [LOGGER] MESSAGE"/>
     <param name="name" value="sampleVFSLogFileReceiver"/>
     <param name="tailing" value="true"/>
   </plugin>

   <root>
      <level value="debug"/>
   </root>
</log4j:configuration>

Anything I might have missed?  In one post I read, can't remember which
one, I think I remember reading that if VFS is correctly configured in
Chainsaw a VFS tab should appear? Exactly where should that appear?  On the
left hand side of chainsaw?  I can now create a VFSLogFilePatternReceiver
inside of Chainsaw, by right-clicking and selecting create new recevier.  A
selection which was not there before.

Any help from anyone would be great, even a "huh, no idea what is wrong"
would help me out.

Thank you,
Giancarlo V. Martinez

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