[Wrapper-user] Wrapper Logging

[Sushil D. <sus...@gm...>]

Hi all,

i am using a Java Wrapper and a Quartz schedular to trigger certain
processes.
i have configured my applications logging to the console from where the
wrapper picks that stuf and loggs it in the logfile.
i.e. my Log4j.properties refelects


# Set root category priority to INFO and its only appender to CONSOLE the
wrapper will log everything on the console to the

#log file so that there won't be two processes trying to get the lock on the
log file and the which might cause problmes.

#log4j.rootCategory=INFO, CONSOLE

log4j.rootCategory=INFO, CONSOLE

# CONSOLE is set to be a ConsoleAppender using a PatternLayout.

log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender

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

log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n



while my wrapper configuration file snippet is as below

#********************************************************************

# Wrapper Logging Properties

#********************************************************************

# Format of output for the console. (See docs for formats)

wrapper.console.format=PM

# Log Level for console output. (See docs for log levels)

wrapper.console.loglevel=INFO

# Log file to use for wrapper output logging.

wrapper.logfile=../logs/wrapper.log

# Format of output for the log file. (See docs for formats)

wrapper.logfile.format=LPTM

# Log Level for log file output. (See docs for log levels)

wrapper.logfile.loglevel=DEBUG

# Maximum size that the log file will be allowed to grow to before

# the log is rolled. Size is specified in bytes. The default value

# of 0, disables log rolling. May abbreviate with the 'k' (kb) or

# 'm' (mb) suffix. For example: 10m = 10 megabytes.

wrapper.logfile.maxsize=20m

# Maximum number of rolled log files which will be allowed before old

# files are deleted. The default value of 0 implies no limit.

wrapper.logfile.maxfiles=20

# Log Level for sys/event log output. (See docs for log levels)

wrapper.syslog.loglevel=NONE



now my issue is this kind of logging loggs everything as expected but as my
process runs 24 X 7 the log files are very big (i used the rolling)

as i could see some redundant log statements of the wrapper and the JVM
increasing the file size

e.g.



INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/07/07 16:12:21 | Send a packet PING : ok
DEBUG  | wrapperp | 2008/07/07 16:12:21 | read a packet PING : ok
DEBUG  | wrapper  | 2008/07/07 16:12:21 | Got ping response from JVM
DEBUG  | wrapperp | 2008/07/07 16:12:25 | send a packet PING : ping
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/07/07 16:12:25 | Received a packet PING : ping
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/07/07 16:12:25 | Send a packet PING : ok
DEBUG  | wrapperp | 2008/07/07 16:12:25 | read a packet PING : ok
DEBUG  | wrapper  | 2008/07/07 16:12:25 | Got ping response from JVM
DEBUG  | wrapperp | 2008/07/07 16:12:29 | send a packet PING : ping
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/07/07 16:12:29 | Received a packet PING : ping
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/07/07 16:12:29 | Send a packet PING : ok
DEBUG  | wrapperp | 2008/07/07 16:12:29 | read a packet PING : ok
DEBUG  | wrapper  | 2008/07/07 16:12:29 | Got ping response from JVM
DEBUG  | wrapperp | 2008/07/07 16:12:33 | send a packet PING : ping
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/07/07 16:12:33 | Received a packet PING : ping
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/07/07 16:12:33 | Send a packet PING : ok
DEBUG  | wrapperp | 2008/07/07 16:12:33 | read a packet PING : ok
DEBUG  | wrapper  | 2008/07/07 16:12:33 | Got ping response from JVM
DEBUG  | wrapperp | 2008/07/07 16:12:37 | send a packet PING : ping
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/07/07 16:12:37 | Received a packet PING : ping
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/07/07 16:12:37 | Send a packet PING : ok
DEBUG  | wrapperp | 2008/07/07 16:12:37 | read a packet PING : ok



can these statements be filtered or can they be stopped from going in to the
log file?

the only option i could see is seperating the loggs of the wrapper and my
application in 2 diff files but that is a very crude way to maintain 2 same
logs in diffrent files.

any suggestions on this?



regards,

Sushil