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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah!! I have just noticed that this new logging regime is actually
hardcoded in java.  That strikes me as a really bad idea.  Can we not
achieve exactly the same effect as you get in code by providing a
default log4j.xml file bundled in the war which could be overriden by
an external file.

Whereas having a sensible out-of-the-box logging setup makes sense, I
can't really see any benefit at all in doing this with code rather
than configuration.  What I would rather do, for example, is to have a
log4j config file bundled with dhis2-tools which is maybe a copy of
the default config.  Then implementers could tweak if they saw fit.
Similar with devs or docker folk who might want to fall back to
catalina.out.

What is the reason for configuring the logging with compiled code?  Is
it just to to specify the default logging location based on
DHIS2_HOME?

On 8 June 2015 at 13:06, Halvdan Grelland <halvdanhg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If the log4j config is overridable at launch we could always add a property
> pointing to a development config in the maven dev profile. I'm not sure how
> that would play with this though as it's being configured programmatically
> at application startup.
>
> Thoughts Lars?
>
> 2015-06-08 3:45 GMT+02:00 Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> No everything generated by DHIS 2 including exceptions go into the main
>>> dhis.log file. We should of course aim at fixing the cause of these errors.
>>
>>
>> Is there an easy way to switch this off during development? Having to tail
>> an extra log file every time doesn't sounds very convenient..
>>
>> --
>> Morten
>>
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