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Logging in Java

Logging has long been a pet peeve of mine. I find it intensely irritating to arrive at a tomcat installation and see a catalina.out file hundreds of megs large because some fool of a developer thought that System.out.println() was a good logging tool. I recently gave a presentation at work about logging, and [...]

Posted 03 September 2008 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Logging in Cocoon 2.2

I’ve had to try and understand logging in Cocoon 2.2 for a project at work recently. It’s been “interesting,” so I thought I’d blog the process in case anybody else needs to o this…
Normally, logging in Java is quite simple: you add log4j to your classpath, then create a log4j.properties to say what gets [...]

Posted 27 August 2008 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Tomcat Logging in WTP

I’ve just been trying to enable debug logging for tomcat (don’t ask). Normally you do this by editing $CATALINA_HOME/conf/logging.properties and restarting.
Except I tried that in Eclipse (using WTP) and it didn’t work.
I tried copying it to the $CATALINA_BASE/conf directory instead1.
Still no joy.
I’ve just found the answer, after looking in the tomcat source. It [...]

Posted 01 August 2008 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

Log Rotation

I hate log rotation. It’s a pain to configure on my FreeBSD server. Just look at newsyslog.conf. That, and my experiences of the utter non-portability of log rotation programs between different Unixes have led me to believe that programs should probably handle their own log rotation. It just makes life easier [...]

Posted 27 July 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Log::Dispatch::Atom 0.02

The other day, I released

Posted 18 November 2005 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,