Quick_Start

• Prerequisites
• Installation
  • Windows®
  • Unix like
• Running
  • Windows
  • Unix like
• Configuration

Prerequisites

Java JRE version 5 or above. A connection to a JIRA repository version 3 or above, with RPC plugin enabled. To enable the RPC plugin, look at JIRA documentation.

Installation

Windows®

open archive log4day-xxx-bin.zip and extract it.

Unix like

open archive log4day-xxx-bin.zip and extract it.

From command line:

     tar -xvzf log4day-xxx-bin.tar.gz

a folder named "log4day" will be created.

Running

Windows

You must run bin/log4day.bat located in log4day folder.

Unix like

You must run bin/log4day.sh located in log4day folder.

The scripts are aware from the directory where you run them, so you can to create a desktop shortcut to them.

Configuration

You can create a log4day.properties file in the main folder where you can set java system properties. Log4day itself supports:

log4day.database.directory=path to the database folder where your logs will be saved (default=database)
log4day.database.name=name of database files (default=db)

For setting proxy config you can use standard java properties:

http.proxyHost=Hostname of proxy server
http.proxyPort=Port on server of proxy
http.proxyUser=Optional username for proxy authentication
http.proxyPassword=Optional proxy server password

You can even add a log4j.xml file, to customize logging configuration (<http://logging.apache.org/log4j/> Log4j). The default configuration writes log console and to the logs folder.