SyslogAppender

[Marvin Chase <Ma...@GFInet.com>]

I need a bit of help troubleshooting a SyslogAppender problem.

I am using a SyslogAppender to append to syslog on linux.  I have
initialized the SyslogAppender to connect to host=localhost, facility=USER
using an xml configuration file.  The syslog entry is as follows:

<appender name="SYSLOG" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender">
		<param name="SyslogHost" value="localhost"/>
		<param name="Facility" value="USER"/>
		<layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
			<param name="ConversionPattern"
				value="%d{ISO8601} [%t] %-5p %c{2} %x -
%m%n"/>
		</layout>
</appender>

I read the log4j faq and saw that if the syslog daemon is not started with
the '-r' option, a log4j error message will be printed indicating that the
SyslogAppender could not write to the syslog port.  This error is NOT being
printed.  I am looking for my logs in /var/log but they are not present.

I'm not familiar with syslog, so I don't know if I am looking in the correct
place, and I don't know what file name my logs would be written to.  If
anyone can tell me where to look or what may be going wrong, I would
appreciate it very much.

thanks in advance

- Marvin


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Re: SyslogAppender

[Ceki Gülcü <ce...@qos.ch>]

Have you tried "man syslogd"? Syslog is not that complicated but
still needs a minimal amount of configuration. Assuming you are using Linux,
what does your /etc/syslog.conf file look like?

At 18:12 23.04.2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I need a bit of help troubleshooting a SyslogAppender problem.
>
>I am using a SyslogAppender to append to syslog on linux.  I have
>initialized the SyslogAppender to connect to host=localhost, facility=USER
>using an xml configuration file.  The syslog entry is as follows:
>
><appender name="SYSLOG" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender">
>                 <param name="SyslogHost" value="localhost"/>
>                 <param name="Facility" value="USER"/>
>                 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
>                         <param name="ConversionPattern"
>                                 value="%d{ISO8601} [%t] %-5p %c{2} %x -
>%m%n"/>
>                 </layout>
></appender>
>
>I read the log4j faq and saw that if the syslog daemon is not started with
>the '-r' option, a log4j error message will be printed indicating that the
>SyslogAppender could not write to the syslog port.  This error is NOT being
>printed.  I am looking for my logs in /var/log but they are not present.
>
>I'm not familiar with syslog, so I don't know if I am looking in the correct
>place, and I don't know what file name my logs would be written to.  If
>anyone can tell me where to look or what may be going wrong, I would
>appreciate it very much.
>
>thanks in advance
>
>- Marvin
>
>
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