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[Baron Fujimoto <>]

I tried this for each of the components, yet everything still wound up in
grouper-api_*.log. A little more investigation yielded that when
rebuilding the components with "ant dist", log4.properties is copied from
the grouper-api conf dir.

grouper-ui:
     [copy] Copying /home/grouper/grouper/grouper-api/conf/log4j.properties 
to 
/home/grouper/grouper/grouper.ui-2.2.1/dist/grouper/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties

grouper-ws:
     [copy] Copying /home/grouper/grouper/grouper-api/conf/log4j.properties 
to 
/home/grouper/grouper/grouper.ws-2.2.1/grouper-ws/build/dist/grouper-ws/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties

So at least that explains why its all going to the same logfile. It doesn't
seem to use webapp/appName/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties in the build (or
it's overwritten if it does). Or am I building/deploying this wrong? I think
what I'm doing is consistent with the general overlay process, no?

-baron

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 09:49:35PM +0000, Chris Hyzer wrote:
>Set absolute paths in the webapps/appName/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties
>
>When it starts up, you should see that the log4j is read from various places 
>in the STDOUT/STDERR (catalina.out).
>
>Ok?
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Baron Fujimoto 
>[mailto:]
> 
>Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 5:48 PM
>To: Chris Hyzer
>Cc: Grouper Users
>Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Re: Questions about Grouper logging
>
>I still have the situation where everything is winding up in the
>grouper-api_*.log, regardless of the settings otherwise in the grouper-ui
>and grouper-ws log4j.properties config files. I'm still unclear on how to
>separate their logs to their respective log files. They all run under the
>same instance of Tomcat, if that makes a difference.
>
>-baron
>
>On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 09:27:44PM +0000, Chris Hyzer wrote:
>>Do you still have questions or are you all set?
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Baron Fujimoto 
>>[mailto:]
>> 
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 5:15 PM
>>To: Chris Hyzer
>>Cc: Grouper Users
>>Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Re: Questions about Grouper logging
>>
>>If I understand your question correctly, then yes, each log4j.properties
>>file specifies its own logfile. I.e.:
>>
>>grouper-api/conf/log4j.properties:
>>log4j.appender.grouper_event.File   = ${logdir}/grouper-api_event.log
>>log4j.appender.grouper_error.File   = ${logdir}/grouper-api_error.log
>>log4j.appender.grouper_debug.File   = ${logdir}/grouper-api_debug.log
>>log4j.appender.grouper_gb.File      = ${logdir}/grouper-api_bench.log
>>
>>grouper-ui/log4j.properties:
>>log4j.appender.grouper_event.File   = ${logdir}/grouper-ui_event.log
>>log4j.appender.grouper_error.File   = ${logdir}/grouper-ui_error.log
>>log4j.appender.grouper_debug.File   = ${logdir}/grouper-ui_debug.log
>>log4j.appender.grouper_gb.File      = ${logdir}/grouper-ui_bench.log
>>
>>grouper-ws/grouper-ws/log4j.properties
>>log4j.appender.grouper_event.File   = ${logdir}/grouper-ws_event.log
>>log4j.appender.grouper_error.File   = ${logdir}/grouper-ws_error.log
>>log4j.appender.grouper_debug.File   = ${logdir}/grouper-ws_debug.log
>>log4j.appender.grouper_gb.File      = ${logdir}/grouper-ws_bench.log
>>
>>On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 01:16:01PM +0000, Chris Hyzer wrote:
>>>Is that in each log4j.properties that specifies the log file name?
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: 
>>>
>>> 
>>>[mailto:]
>>> On Behalf Of Baron Fujimoto
>>>Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 3:49 PM
>>>To: Grouper Users
>>>Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Re: Questions about Grouper logging
>>>
>>>I've made some progress: each component appears to be logging successfully.
>>>The log4j.properties config file for each component had to be placed in the
>>>following directories:
>>>
>>>grouper-api/conf/log4j.properties
>>>grouper-ui/log4j.properties
>>>grouper-ws/grouper-ws/log4j.properties
>>>
>>>It still isn't clear to me how/where grouper.home is defined for each
>>>component, so logfiles have been set with absolute paths.
>>>
>>>Each component's log4j.properties file was based off of the provided
>>>sample grouper-api/conf/log4j.example.properties where each of
>>>
>>>log4j.appender.grouper_event.File
>>>log4j.appender.grouper_error.File
>>>log4j.appender.grouper_debug.File
>>>
>>>was set to go to a logfile dedicated for that component. E.g.:
>>>
>>>logs/grouper-api.log
>>>logs/grouper-ui_event.log
>>>logs/grouper-ws.log
>>>
>>>However, everything logged (api, ui, ws) is going to grouper-api.log.
>>>
>>>How do I differentiate the output for each component? It's not clear
>>>from looking at the subset in grouper-ui/log4j.template.properties 
>>>what the relevant properties are. I must be missing something though.
>>>
>>>Aloha,
>>>-baron
>>>
>>>On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 01:33:40AM -0400, Chris Hyzer wrote:
>>>>Yes,  You can (and i think should) log each app to it's own log file.   
>>>>Each one has it's own log4j.properties.  It's either in the webapps dir 
>>>>or the place where you configure tomcat to get the app from in sever.xml. 
>>>> Stdout will print out where it gets it from on grouper start up
>>>>
>>>>log4j.properties read from:   
>>>>C:\temp\grouperInstaller\grouper.apiBinary-2.0.2\conf\log4j.properties
>>>>
>>>>Thanks Chris
>>>>
>>>><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Baron Fujimoto 
>>>><>
>>>> </div><div>Date:08/26/2015  8:14 PM  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Grouper 
>>>>Users 
>>>><>
>>>> </div><div>Subject: [grouper-users] Re: Questions about Grouper logging 
>>>></div><div>
>>>></div>Also happy to RTFM if I've overlooked this info somewhere and 
>>>>someone points
>>>>me to it...
>>>>
>>>>On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 06:29:08PM -1000, Baron Fujimoto wrote:
>>>>>I have some (stupid, I fear) questions about configuring Grouper's 
>>>>>logging.
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a directory hierarchy that looks like
>>>>>grouper/
>>>>>  grouper-api/
>>>>>  grouper-ui/
>>>>>  grouper-ws/
>>>>>  logs/
>>>>>    grouper-api/
>>>>>    grouper-ui/
>>>>>    grouper-ws/
>>>>>
>>>>>To facilitate troubleshooting, I'd like to be able to have each grouper 
>>>>>component log to their respective log dirs. E.g.:
>>>>>  grouper/logs/grouper-api/
>>>>>  grouper/logs/grouper-ui/
>>>>>  grouper/logs/grouper-ws/
>>>>>
>>>>>When I ran the installer interactively, I was prompted for the location
>>>>>of the grouper-ui and grouper-ws log dirs. This mostly seemed to do what
>>>>>I wanted. However, the installer installs tomcat 6.35, and we're using
>>>>>tomcat 8. I think after I cut the grouper apps over to run under our
>>>>>tomcat 8 instance, I noticed it was no longer logging to those originally
>>>>>specified log dirs.
>>>>>
>>>>>I see there's a grouper-api/conf/log4j.properties, and a
>>>>>grouper-ui/log4j.template.properties, but no log4j files under
>>>>>grouper-ws. Can each component get its own log4j/properties file?
>>>>>If so, do they go in their respective /conf dirs (the grouper-ui
>>>>>template isn't in the conf dir, for example)?
>>>>>
>>>>>Where is grouper.home defined? Is it the same for each component?
>>>>>
>>>>>Aloha,
>>>>>-baron

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Baron Fujimoto 
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