Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Remove logging to xwiki.log by default

Should this go in 2.7 or should I wait for 3.0? IMO waiting for 3.0 (i.e. Monday for the release and the trunk branch) is best at this stage since we should be from now on only fix bugs for the 2.x cycle.

Thanks -Vincent On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'd like to propose removing the log to xwiki.log by default in our log4j.properties file. > > The rationale is: > * This is causing problems with a lot of users since by default we log in the current directory and there are lots of cases when users start xwiki from a directory where you don't have correct permissions > * We don't control where xwiki.log is created > > Proposal: > * We only log to stdout: > ** tomcat is already configured to capture stdout/stderr and to redirect them to catalina.out > ** I have a modification ready for Jetty to do the same, here it is in case you want to see it: > > <!-- =========================================================== --> > <!-- Redirect stdout& stderr to a log file --> > <!-- =========================================================== --> > <New id="ServerLog" class="java.io.PrintStream"> > <Arg> > <New class="org.mortbay.util.RolloverFileOutputStream"> > <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/logs/yyyy_mm_dd.stderrout.log</Arg> > <Arg type="boolean">false</Arg> > <Arg type="int">90</Arg> > <Arg><Call class="java.util.TimeZone" name="getTimeZone"><Arg>GMT</Arg></Call></Arg> > <Get id="ServerLogName" name="datedFilename"/> > </New> > </Arg> > </New> > <Call class="org.mortbay.log.Log" name="info"><Arg>Redirecting stderr/stdout to<Ref id="ServerLogName"/></Arg></Call> > <Call class="java.lang.System" name="setErr"><Arg><Ref id="ServerLog"/></Arg></Call> > <Call class="java.lang.System" name="setOut"><Arg><Ref id="ServerLog"/></Arg></Call> > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent