AccessLogValve - tomcat 5.0.x logging to syslog?!

["Becker, Thomas, VF-Group" <Th...@vodafone.com>]

Hi everybody,

I've searched the internet and experimented around getting the following
done:

I want to have tomcat logging it's access log to syslog.

I already successfully have catalina.out and all the server's logs
written through log4j, which makes logging to syslog quite easy.
Only the AccessLogValve is causing me headaches. I don't have any idea
anymore on how to get it logged through l4j or directly to syslog.

Thanks a lot!
Thomas

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Re: AccessLogValve - tomcat 5.0.x logging to syslog?!

[Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org>]

You'd need to implement your own access log valve class to write to syslog. 
OR if you are using a Unix system you *might* be able to try this kludge:

1) Create a named pipe (using mkfifo)
2) Configure AccessLogValve to NOT rotate and use that named pipe
3) Run a program which reads from the fifo and writes to syslog, for example, 
this tiny perl script:

---
use Sys::Syslog;
open(FIFO, "$myFifoFile") ||die "this won't be pretty, $!";
while(<FIFO>) {
    system('logger', '-t', 'tomcat', '-p', 'local3.info', $_);
}
close(FIFO);
---


-Tim

Becker, Thomas, VF-Group wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I've searched the internet and experimented around getting the following
> done:
> 
> I want to have tomcat logging it's access log to syslog.
> 
> I already successfully have catalina.out and all the server's logs
> written through log4j, which makes logging to syslog quite easy.
> Only the AccessLogValve is causing me headaches. I don't have any idea
> anymore on how to get it logged through l4j or directly to syslog.
> 

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