write to the log file

[forumwebuser]

Hello,

Im working with two alfresco environments: windows desktop and ubuntu server.

I have developed some components and, for debugging reasons im writing to the console. I can use this on the windows machine because in windows Im running alfresco using the bat file (console mode). However, as far as I know, I cant do this in ubuntu.

So, instead of writing to the console, I tried to write to the log file using log4j. First in each component I create a log4j object and I set the message like info and debugging. Then I set something like this in the  log4j.propertiesfile:

log4j.logger.com.alfresco.myenterpise.services=info -> in order to log the info entries

or
log4j.logger.com.alfresco.myenterpise.services=debug -> in order to log the debugging entries

Note that "com.alfresco.myenterpise.services" is exactly the path Im using in the organization of my classes in eclipse.

I then restarted alfresco. However, I cant see any log written to the catalina log file…

Am I missing something?

thank you

[rwetherall]

Have you tried using the JAVA options "-Dlog4j.debug=true" … this will give you information at run time about which log4j configuration files are being loaded and other useful information that might help debug the issue.

Cheers,
Roy

[forumwebuser]

Actually my problem was that I was looking for the wrong file…
However your tip is very helpfull,

thank you