[Looking] advice on system generation log

[midoscofield]

Hi all,

I wanted to have advice on the system log file generation in general, such as limiting the size of the log file,manage which message to display etc…

Thanks

[abarisone]

Hi,
since Alfresco uses log4j for logging, you have some choices.
This solution gives you the opportunity to limit the file size and to decide the number of backup files.

log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=100KB
# Keep one backup file

log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=1
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Personally I prefer the DailyRollingFileAppender that rolls each day on a new file

# LOG4J daily rolling log files configuration

log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, RollingAppender

log4j.appender.RollingAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender

log4j.appender.RollingAppender.File=app.log

log4j.appender.RollingAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd

log4j.appender.RollingAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout

log4j.appender.RollingAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=[%p] %d %c %M - %m%n
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You can chack log4j page for more info at http://logging.apache.org/

If you need to modify Tomcat's log you need to refer to Tomcat Juli, which performs all logging operations.

Regards,
Andrea