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Posted to log4j-user@logging.apache.org by Jacob Kjome <ho...@visi.com> on 2005/11/27 00:11:13 UTC
Re: Permission denied, log4j from IntelliJ Idea w/Tomcat,
log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed
Looks to me like the Log4j config is pointing to a file at
"/email.log". It is unlikely that the Tomcat user has permissions to write
to the root of the file system. Point the log file to another location.
Jake
At 01:52 PM 11/26/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>This is not my setup, but I'm charged with getting it to work. Can
>someone help? I'm moving from a Windows host to Linux, and I get
>permission errors writing the logs.
>
>I can't figure out what the current directory is at the time of the
>failed call, and I'm not sure what process is running either. Any
>hints? Is there a way to make this error message a bit more transparent?
>
>Here's the start of the log file:
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>/usr/share/tomcat5/bin/catalina.sh run
>Using CATALINA_BASE:
>/home/bryce/.IntelliJIdea50/system/tomcat_Tomcat_b826af2c
>Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat5
>Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp
>Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun
>Nov 26, 2005 1:31:43 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
>INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
>Nov 26, 2005 1:31:44 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
>INFO: Initialization processed in 2587 ms
>Nov 26, 2005 1:31:44 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
>INFO: Starting service Catalina
>Nov 26, 2005 1:31:44 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
>INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.0
>Nov 26, 2005 1:31:44 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
>INFO: XML validation disabled
>Nov 26, 2005 1:31:44 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost getDeployer
>INFO: Create Host deployer for direct deployment ( non-jmx )
>Nov 26, 2005 1:31:44 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer
>install
>INFO: Processing Context configuration file URL
>file:/home/bryce/.IntelliJIdea50/system/tomcat_Tomcat_b826af2c/conf/Catalina
>/localhost/ROOT.xml
>log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
>java.io.FileNotFoundException: /email.log (Permission denied)
> at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method)
> at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:177)
> at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:102)
> at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:272)
> at
>org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender.setFile(RollingFileAppender.java:156)
> at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:151)
> ....
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>>>>> cat
>/home/bryce/.IntelliJIdea50/system/tomcat_Tomcat_b826af2c/conf/Catalina/loca
>lhost/ROOT.xml
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><Context path="" docBase="/mnt/hdb5/cvs/ccs/denali/exploded" />
>
>
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Re: Permission denied, log4j from IntelliJ Idea w/Tomcat,
log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed
Posted by Jacob Kjome <ho...@visi.com>.
At 04:16 PM 11/26/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Ah, that's it. I had assumed that was a relative path name.
>But how do I set the default path?
>AFIK the log file base is set to
> System.setProperty("log.dir", denaliHome + File.separator + "logs");
>Where denaliHome is not "".
>
What does the config file look like? It's quite obvious that this system
property is not being utilized since even if "denaliHome" was "" and the
config file had the file path as "${log.dir}/email.log", the path would
still be "/logs/email.log". Do you know what config file the app is
using? If not, and if you don't have any control over the classpath, you
can still set the URL to the config file by using the following on the
command line when starting the server (how you get it in-line with the
"java" command inside the script that bootstraps the server is
server-specific, so you'll have to figure that out yourself)....
-Dlog4j.configuration=file:/path/to/config/file/log4j.xml
This way you guarantee that default initialization picks up the config file
you expect it to. Of course, if you are doing manual config, then you
probably know which file is being configured. Although, keep in mind that
if defaut initialization finds a log4j config file, it will attempt to use
it, even if later on you use manual configuration which is why I always
suggest that one put a dummy basic log4j.xml file in the classpath to avoid
unexpected behavior in default initialization when you are going to
manually configure another config file.
Jake
>Jacob Kjome wrote:
>> Looks to me like the Log4j config is pointing to a file at
>> "/email.log". It is unlikely that the Tomcat user has permissions to
>> write to the root of the file system. Point the log file to another
>> location.
>>
>> Jake
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Re: Permission denied, log4j from IntelliJ Idea w/Tomcat, log4j:ERROR
setFile(null,true) call failed
Posted by Bryce Nesbitt <br...@obviously.com>.
Ah, that's it. I had assumed that was a relative path name.
But how do I set the default path?
AFIK the log file base is set to
System.setProperty("log.dir", denaliHome + File.separator + "logs");
Where denaliHome is not "".
Jacob Kjome wrote:
> Looks to me like the Log4j config is pointing to a file at
> "/email.log". It is unlikely that the Tomcat user has permissions to
> write to the root of the file system. Point the log file to another
> location.
>
> Jake
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