Disabling Daily Logs

[yj4jboss]

Hello,
I would like to know how to disable the daily server.log files which are created by JBoss in the /default/log folder. I am using jboss-4.0.4.GA-jems.

Thnx.
Yogesh

[jaikiran]

You mean you want to disable the rollover feature in log4j where the files gets renamed to something like server.log.2006-03-07.log? Or do you want to disable the logging itself?

If it's the former then, you will have to modify the contents the log4j.xml file present in %JBOSS_HOME%/server/default/conf folder. This files contain a appender named "FILE" which you will have to change to:

<appender name="FILE" class="org.jboss.logging.appender.FileAppender">
 <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
 <param name="File" value="${jboss.server.home.dir}/log/server.log"/>
 <param name="Append" value="false"/>

 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
 <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ISO8601} [%X{TAPUSERNAME}] %-5p [%c] %m%n"/>
 </layout>
 </appender>

[yj4jboss]

Hi jaikiran,
I tried uncommenting the lines:

 <!-- Rollover at midnight each day
 <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd"/>
 -->

 <!-- Rollover at the top of each hour
 <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd-HH"/>
 -->

but these led to no changes...i can see your configs have these two lines missing ...... i hope this would make it.


Thnx for helping.

Cheers,
Yogesh

[jaikiran]

Can you post the contents of your log4j.xml? Also, you want the logs to go in a single file named server.log instead of files like server.log.2006-03-07.log. Am i right?

[yj4jboss]

Hi,
My requirements are as follows:

I only want one server.log file and limit its size to say around 100MB as diskspace on my server is limited.

I would also know if it possible to configure log4j to generate all logs in a MySQL Database


Thnx.

Regards,
Yogesh

[jaikiran]

Yes you can configure log4j to log into database. Have a look at:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/08/07/log4j.html?page=3

[jaikiran]

I only want one server.log file and limit its size to say around 100MB as diskspace on my server is limited.

I guess this one should work:

<appender name="FILE" class="org.jboss.logging.appender.RollingFileAppender">
 <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
 <param name="File" value="${jboss.server.home.dir}/log/server.log"/>
 <param name="Append" value="false"/>
 <param name="MaxFileSize" value="100MB"/>
 <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="0"/>

 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
 <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ISO8601} [%X{TAPUSERNAME}] %-5p [%c] %m%n"/>
 </layout>
 </appender>