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Re: Tomcat Logging Levels / DHIS2

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Aha,



Now it all makes sense…



I did manage to break the logger altogether, which had the same effect as
switching it off:

I changed the line below to read:



log4j.rootLogger = OFF



in the properties file, and it stopped logging – at least, apart from
logging an error about the logger not being configured properly….  J

Same net result, and no harm done, since it’s a test sandbox.



Thanks for the feedback, guys – much appreciated.

If I have anything useful to contribute once I am finished, I’ll mail it.



Kind regards,

Jason.



*From:* Lars Helge Øverland [mailto:lars@xxxxxxxxx]
*Sent:* Thursday, 10 March 2016 4:34 PM
*To:* Bob Jolliffe
*Cc:* Jason Phillips; DHIS 2 Users list
*Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-users] Tomcat Logging Levels / DHIS2



Hi Jason,



we do use log4j for logging so you need to use the log4j configuration
syntax to modify the behavior.



You can do this to raise the log level for the spring authentication, try
something like this in your log4j.properties:





springframework.security.web.authentication = ERROR









Lars









On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not daft (well not completely daft).  You cannot change the default logging
configuration.  It is set programmatically in java.



Your option is to create a custom log4j configuration as per the
documentation.



In production you might want to do this anyway, rather than rely on the
baked in configuration.  Some time ago I produced a log4j configuration
file which mimiced the behaviour of the hard coded configuration but I lost
it - I know, I should have committed it somewhere but I didn't.  Now I will
(eventually) have to do it again.



(An alternative future approach might be to allow some of these things to
be fine tuned in the settings through the ui but this is currently not
possible)



On 10 March 2016 at 14:21, Jason Phillips <jason@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Lars,



Yep – and unless I’ve dropped a few IQ points, I can’t see where it tell
you how to adjust the logging levels.

It explains the extra logging I referred to, but doesn’t tell me how to
change anything in the default logging, unless I am being daft?

I don’t want to use log4j, or anything else; I just want to stop the thing
from logging authentications…



Am I being daft?



Best,

Jason.





*From:* Lars Helge Øverland [mailto:lars@xxxxxxxxx]
*Sent:* Thursday, 10 March 2016 2:58 PM
*To:* Jason Phillips
*Cc:* DHIS 2 Users list
*Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-users] Tomcat Logging Levels / DHIS2



Hi Jason,



did you look at this section in the docs?



http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/implementer/html/ch08s08.html



regards,



Lars





On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Jason Phillips <jason@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,



Can anyone provide me with details of how to make changes to DHIS2 Tomcat
logging levels?



I have tried editing logging.properties in [BASE]/conf, and turning off
logging (and various other attempts at different levels, such as SEVERE,
WARNING, etc) using the folling settings:



------------------------

1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = OFF

1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs

1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = catalina.



2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = OFF

2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs

2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = localhost.



java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = OFF

java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter =
java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter



…



org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level = OFF

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].handlers =
2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler



------------------------

And still no joy – DHIS2 logs away, regardless.  I have set the levels to
alternating variants of SEVERE, FINE, FINEST, WARNING and others to no
discernible effect.

Any info would be most appreciated.



Also, while on the subject, I notice that logging duplication appears to be
happening in the [BASE]/conf/logs folder, albeit separated into different
files based on function/origin.

Are those logs affected by the same settings/properties, and how does one
manipulate their levels, in addition to or separately from, the standard
catalina.out?



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