perfsonar development work

[Roman Lapacz <>]

Cándido Rodríguez Montes wrote:
> Hi,
> for the perfSONAR 3.1 all perfSONAR services have to write their logs 
> into the SYSLOG. 
> As all Java developers we are using the same log4j.properties, I think 
> it's a good idea to have the same one for the new requirement. Has 
> anybody done it so far?

I've just tested syslogging with log4j and it works.

Add to your log4j.properties file (for example at the end of the file) 
the following lines

log4j.appender.SYSLOG=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender
log4j.appender.SYSLOG.syslogHost=127.0.0.1
log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %5p - %m%n


and update log levels lines this way:

log4j.logger.sonar-debug=DEBUG, SYSLOG, psRootAppender
log4j.logger.sonar-info=INFO, SYSLOG, psRootAppender
log4j.logger.sonar-warn=WARN, SYSLOG, psRootAppender
log4j.logger.sonar-error=ERROR, SYSLOG, psRootAppender
log4j.logger.sonar-fatal=FATAL, SYSLOG, psRootAppender


Roman





> I've found some good information about how to configure log4j for 
> writing into SYSLOG at:
> http://threebit.net/mail-archive/tomcat-users/msg00219.html
> http://wiki.apache.org/logging-log4j/syslog
>
> Regards
>
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