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[Ben Beecher <>]

Paul,

Log file compression is working now. Thanks very much.

Ben

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Paul Engle <> wrote:

Ben,
  I think you need to have a property for
log4j.appender.grouper_error.rollingPolicy defined explicitly. The
examples I'm seeing would be something like:

log4j.appender.grouper_error.rollingPolicy=org.apache.log4j.rolling.FixedWindowRollingPolicy

  -paul

On 1/19/2018 2:00 PM, Ben Beecher wrote:
> I would like to configure Grouper so that the old logs are compressed
> automatically.
> I downloaded the apache-log4j-extras-1.2.17.jar file and installed it in
> GROUPER_HOME/lib/custom and in the WEB-INF/lib directories. I modified
> the log4j properties to include these directives:
>
> log4j.appender.grouper_error=org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender
> log4j.appender.grouper_error.rollingPolicy.maxIndex=7
> log4j.appender.grouper_error.triggeringPolicy=org.apache.log4j.rolling.SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
> log4j.appender.grouper_error.triggeringPolicy.MaxFileSize=1024
> log4j.appender.grouper_error.rollingPolicy.FileNamePattern=/var/log/tcat/grouperqat/grouper_error.log.%i.gz
> log4j.appender.grouper_error.rollingPolicy.ActiveFileName=/var/log/tcat/grouperqat/grouper_error.log
> log4j.appender.grouper_error.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
> log4j.appender.grouper_error.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p
> (%F:%L) - %m%n
>
> I get these errors when I start the Grouper shell:
>
> log4j:WARN Please set a rolling policy for the RollingFileAppender named
> 'grouper_error'
> log4j:ERROR No output stream or file set for the appender named
> [grouper_error].
> Grouper starting up: version: 2.3.0, build date: null, env: dev
> grouper.properties read from:
> /var/tomcat/grouperqat/webapps/grouper/WEB-INF/classes/grouper.properties
> Grouper current directory is: /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.82
> log4j.properties read from: 
>  /var/tomcat/grouperqat/webapps/grouper/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties
> Grouper error, file appender path is empty, maybe dir doesnt exist
> Grouper is logging to file:   at min level WARN for package:
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper, based on log4j.properties
>
> It seems to want TimeBasedRollingPolicy:
> log4j.appender.file.RollingPolicy=org.apache.log4j.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy
>
> but when I use that policy the file name must contain the date. I don't
> want the date to be part of the log file name since I am using a size
> based triggering policy. Any insight would be appreciated.
>
> Ben

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