RE: Log4j Problem w/Tomcat 5.0.24 and JSVC

["Shapira, Yoav" <Yo...@mpi.com>]

Hi,
Added to the FAQ (misc section).

Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Erickson [mailto:derickson@cmcflex.com]
>Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 6:12 PM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: Re: Log4j Problem w/Tomcat 5.0.24 and JSVC
>
>Ok this time I got it working for sure, note this is specific to
getting
>log4j working to log tomcat's classes when launched from jsvc.
>1) Download commons-logging.jar and put it in $CATALINA_HOME/bin
>2) Download the log4j jar and also put it in $CATALINA_HOME/bin
>3) Create your log4j.properties file and put it in
>$CATALINA_HOME/common/classes
>
>Here is part of my tomcat jsvc launch script:
>JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
>CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat
>TOMCAT_PROG=tomcat
>TOMCAT_USER="tomcat"
>DAEMON_HOME=/usr/local/daemon
>TMP_DIR=/var/tmp
>LOG4J_CONFIG=log4j.properties
>CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:\
>$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
>$DAEMON_HOME/dist/commons-daemon.jar:\
>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:\
>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-logging.jar:\
>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/log4j-1.2.8.jar:\
>$CATALINA_HOME/common/classes:\
>
>start() {
>    echo -n "Starting tomcat: "
>    chown -R $TOMCAT_USER:$TOMCAT_USER /usr/local/tomcat/*
>    $DAEMON_HOME/jsvc\
>    -user $TOMCAT_USER \
>    -home $JAVA_HOME \
>    -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
>    -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \
>    -Dlog4j.configuration=$LOG4J_CONFIG \
>    -
>Dorg.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLo
>gger \
>    -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
>    -errfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
>    -Xmx256m \
>    -cp $CLASSPATH \
>    org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
>    RETVAL=$?
>    echo
>    [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/tomcat
>    return $RETVAL
>}
>
>Hope this helps anyone else who has a nightmare getting the classpath
and
>stuff set correctly =)
>-David
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Erickson" <de...@cmcflex.com>
>To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
>Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:31 PM
>Subject: Re: Log4j Problem w/Tomcat 5.0.24 and JSVC
>
>
>> Believe me I looked through the archives.. this post doesn't work
when
>using
>> JSVC to launch TC.  And apparently somewhere in the last hour I had
>> something working because it generated a console.log but I didn't
notice
>it
>> and then when i did notice it I had changed stuff and it was broken
>again...
>> *sigh* lol.
>> -David
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Filip Hanik (lists)" <de...@hanik.com>
>> To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
>> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:02 PM
>> Subject: RE: Log4j Problem w/Tomcat 5.0.24 and JSVC
>>
>>
>> > >After hours of messing around trying to get the log4j to
initialize
>> >
>> > looking in the archives would have saved you hours of work!
>> >
>http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg126799.ht
ml
>> >
>> > Filip
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: David Erickson [mailto:derickson@cmcflex.com]
>> > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:53 PM
>> > To: Tomcat Users List
>> > Subject: Re: Log4j Problem w/Tomcat 5.0.24 and JSVC
>> >
>> >
>> > After hours of messing around trying to get the log4j to initialize
>with
>> > tomcat here's what you need to do:
>> >
>> > Put the log4j jar file into $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib, and your
>> > log4j.properties or log4j.xml into $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes.
Then
>> > modify your tomcat jsvc classpath variable to look something like:
>> >
>> > CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:\
>> > $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
>> > $DAEMON_HOME/dist/commons-daemon.jar:\
>> > $CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:\
>> > $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar:\
>> > $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes
>> >
>> > And wallah everything will work =)
>> > -David
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "David Erickson" <de...@cmcflex.com>
>> > To: "Tomcat-User List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
>> > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 11:48 AM
>> > Subject: Log4j Problem w/Tomcat 5.0.24 and JSVC
>> >
>> >
>> > > Hey All I am running Tomcat 5.0.24 on a RH9 Machine, at startup
using
>> > JSVC.
>> > > My root problem is I am unable to get tomcat's SSL port to run on
>443..
>> > > (works peachy on 8443, but when I hit 443 I get nothing it just
hangs
>> and
>> > > timesout).  Well anyway I was trying to get Log4j logging to work
so
>I
>> > could
>> > > see if tomcat was outputting anything funny, I stuck the log4j
jar
>into
>> > > common/lib, built a log4j.properties file and put it in
>common/classes,
>> > but
>> > > for some reason log4j is not being initializized from that props
>file,
>> its
>> > > as if common/classes isn't being read.  Here's the file I am
using:
>> > >
>> > > ##################
>> > > # Appender Definitions
>> > >
log4j.appender.ConsoleFile=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
>> > > log4j.appender.ConsoleFile.file=${catalina.home}/logs/console.log
>> > > log4j.appender.ConsoleFile.datePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
>> > > log4j.appender.ConsoleFile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>> > > log4j.appender.ConsoleFile.layout.ConversionPattern=%-d [%-5p] %c
-
>%m%n
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > #################
>> > > # Logger Definitions
>> > > log4j.debug=TRUE
>> > > log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, ConsoleFile
>> > > log4j.logger.org.apache=DEBUG, ConsoleFile
>> > > log4j.logger.org.apache.commons=ERROR, ConsoleFile
>> > >
>> > > its not creating my console.log file or anything, and I'm getting
no
>> debug
>> > > output to the catalina.out file created by jsvc.  My webapp also
uses
>> > log4j
>> > > and in its prop's i set log4j's debug to be on and it told me
there
>was
>> no
>> > > rootlogger.. so somehow this file is not being parsed.
Permissions
>are
>> > > good, set as tomcat/tomcat the user that jsvc delegates to.  I'm
at a
>> loss
>> > > as to what is goin on, my windows dev box has this same setup and
>works
>> > > great.  The only diff is its not using jsvc, is that a possible
>problem
>> > > here?  For kicks and giggles I added the catalina_home/common/lib
and
>> > > classes dirs to jsvc's classpath it launches with but that didnt
help
>> > > either.
>> > >
>> > > Help appreciated!!
>> > > -David
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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