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Replacing Tomcat's JULI with Logback
by Michael Andrews 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

Hello - I'd really like to swap out Tomcat's JULI logging for slf4j and Logback, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Any suggestions, URLs, links, documentation would be appreciated! Thanks, M

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Is it possible to set a defined property with a new value?
by LogbackUser 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

Below is something what I want to achieve <insertFromJNDI env-entry-name="LogLocation" as="LOG_LOCATION"/> <if condition='property("LOG_LOCATION").equals("")'> <then>  </then> </if> Basically I want to set the LOG_LOCATION property to be set to a default value if the JNDI entry is not present. What currently happens is - if the JNDI property is not defined it assigns the property named "LOG_LOCATION" to "LOG_LOCATION_IS_UNDEFINED". Thank you in advance. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-defined-property-with-a-new-v… Sent from the Logback User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Migrating from log4j
by Taariq 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Hi I'm migrating an app from log4j, which uses a daily rolling file appender defined like this... log4j.rootLogger=ERROR ### file appender log4j.appender.GTISFile=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.GTISFile.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n log4j.appender.GTISFile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.GTISFile.File="${user.home}/log/gtis.log" This will create a file named gtis.log in my user home directory, in a sub directory called log. The logback config to attempt the same... <appender name="GTISFile" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender"> <File>"${user.home}/log/gtis.log"</File> <encoder> <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</pattern> </encoder> <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">  <fileNamePattern>.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>  <maxHistory>30</maxHistory> </rollingPolicy> </appender> Now first I have to mention I'm using spring and other libraries that depend on log4j, so I'm using logback-classic 0.9.28, log4j-over-slf4j and slf4j-api 1.6.1 As such I've got both the log4j.properties file and the logback.xml in the classpath, hoping that logback handle all calls to log4j. If this is wrong please let me know. This results in the errors below in both log4j and logback. It seems to want to create "C:\Users\TaariqL\log\gtis.log" inside my working directory. If I don't try to use the user.home or user.dir directories, eg <fileNamePattern>log/gtis.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>, then it works fine and creates the log file in a folder called log inside my working directory. How does logback support the behaviour I had with log4j? Thanks, Taariq log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed. java.io.FileNotFoundException: "C:\Users\TaariqL\log\gtis.log" (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect) at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:177) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:102) at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:289) at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:163) at org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender.activateOptions(DailyRollingFileAppender.java:215) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:256) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:132) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:96) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:654) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:612) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:509) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:415) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:441) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:468) at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:122) at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:104) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.getLogger(Log4JLogger.java:283) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.<init>(Log4JLogger.java:108) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.createLogFromClass(LogFactoryImpl.java:1040) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.discoverLogImplementation(LogFactoryImpl.java:838) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:601) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:333) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:307) at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:645) at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.<clinit>(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:90) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.buildRunner(AnnotatedBuilder.java:31) at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.runnerForClass(AnnotatedBuilder.java:24) at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57) at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:29) at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57) at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.runners(RunnerBuilder.java:93) at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.runners(RunnerBuilder.java:84) at org.junit.runners.Suite.<init>(Suite.java:79) at com.intellij.junit4.IdeaSuite.<init>(IdeaSuite.java:40) at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit46ClassesRequestBuilder.getClassesRequest(JUnit46ClassesRequestBuilder.java:34) at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4TestRunnerUtil.buildRequest(JUnit4TestRunnerUtil.java:81) at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:64) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:196) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:65) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:115) log4j:ERROR Either File or DatePattern options are not set for appender [GTISFile]. 10:56:00,063 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] - Could NOT find resource [logback.groovy] 10:56:00,064 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] - Found resource [logback-test.xml] at [file:/C:/Users/TaariqL/Documents/Workspace/GTIS_Trunk/gtis-core/target/test-classes/logback-test.xml] 10:56:00,256 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - About to instantiate appender of type [ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender] 10:56:00,261 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - Naming appender as [GTISFile] 10:56:00,284 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.NestedComplexPropertyIA - Assuming default type [ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder] for [encoder] property 10:56:00,349 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy - No compression will be used 10:56:00,351 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy - Will use the pattern .%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log for the active file 10:56:00,356 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.DefaultTimeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy - The date pattern is 'yyyy-MM-dd' from file name pattern '.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log'. 10:56:00,356 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.DefaultTimeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy - Roll-over at midnight. 10:56:00,359 |-INFO in c.q.l.core.rolling.DefaultTimeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy - Setting initial period to Thu Apr 21 10:56:00 CAT 2011 10:56:00,360 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[GTISFile] - Active log file name: "C:\Users\TaariqL/log/gtis.log" 10:56:00,360 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[GTISFile] - File property is set to ["C:\Users\TaariqL/log/gtis.log"] 10:56:00,362 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[GTISFile] - Failed to create parent directories for [C:\Users\TaariqL\Documents\Workspace\GTIS_Trunk\"C:\Users\TaariqL\log\gtis.log"] 10:56:00,363 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[GTISFile] - openFile("C:\Users\TaariqL/log/gtis.log",true) call failed. java.io.FileNotFoundException: "C:\Users\TaariqL\log\gtis.log" (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect) at java.io.FileNotFoundException: "C:\Users\TaariqL\log\gtis.log" (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect) at at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method) at at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:177) at at ch.qos.logback.core.recovery.ResilientFileOutputStream.<init>(ResilientFileOutputStream.java:30) at at ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender.openFile(FileAppender.java:163) at at ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender.start(FileAppender.java:115) at at ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender.start(RollingFileAppender.java:79) at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction.end(AppenderAction.java:96) at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.callEndAction(Interpreter.java:315) at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.endElement(Interpreter.java:194) at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.endElement(Interpreter.java:180) at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.EventPlayer.play(EventPlayer.java:52) at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.play(Interpreter.java:332) at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:126) at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:93) at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:52) at at ch.qos.logback.classic.util.ContextInitializer.configureByResource(ContextInitializer.java:77) at at ch.qos.logback.classic.util.ContextInitializer.autoConfig(ContextInitializer.java:150) at at org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.init(StaticLoggerBinder.java:85) at at org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.<clinit>(StaticLoggerBinder.java:55) at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.bind(LoggerFactory.java:121) at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.performInitialization(LoggerFactory.java:111) at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory(LoggerFactory.java:268) at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:241) at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:254) at at za.co.newco.common.ConfigTests.<init>(ConfigTests.java:16) at at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:202) at at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:219) at at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner$1.runReflectiveCall(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:301) at at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15) at at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.methodBlock(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:303) at at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:240) at at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184) at at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61) at at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:70) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236) at at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:180) at at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:128) at at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:24) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184) at at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236) at at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:157) at at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:97) at at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:196) at at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:65) at at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:115)

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Still getting log4j messages
by Chris 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

We're using slf4j and logback in our app. We've got an app that depends on a library that depends on log4j (freemarker). When we invoke the library, we get: log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (freemarker.runtime). This is strange, because log4j isn't on the classpath. We *do* have log4j-over-slf4j on the classpath, and we do have "freemarker.runtime" defined in logback.xml. Logback.xml is getting properly read and used by other parts of the application. Any suggestions on why the Freemarker library isn't properly using log4j-over-slf4j? Where should I look?

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Feature/s Question/Request/suggestions
by Yihya Hugirat 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

hi all, i'm a new user of logback, i have noticed the following: (with web apps) 1. when obtaining variables from JNDI used to get the appname to name the log file with it, when the webapp first deployed the name ist appName_is_UNDEFINDED. but when the logging first uesd a new logfile will be created with the wright name. (Suggestion to mention it in the Documentation or when it solveable to solve it ) 2. i have run in the following Problem by migrating from JUL to lgoBack, we are used to see the log output in Netbeans. so by migration we wanted to keep the output in the same way so i have used replace to replace the logback levels in JUL levels this way: <pattern>[#|%date|%replace(%level){'WARN', 'WARNING'}|%class|%method|%logger{35}|%msg|#]%n</pattern> is it possible to add something like that <pattern>[#|%date|%replace(%level){'WARN', 'WARNING' }{ 'DEBUG', 'FINE'}|%class|%method|%logger{35}|%msg|#]%n</pattern> to make it replace more than on pattern. (it must not be the same way) -- إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَنْ تَشِيعَ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتُمْ لا تَعْلَمُونَ My public key please use it when you contact me: هذا مفتاحي العام الرجاء أستخدامه عند الإتصال بي: 09BA B710 4B98 ECDA 8C0A 6CB1 2E1E CF88 6A12 F2C3

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is this a wright usage of condition ???
by Yihya Hugirat 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

<if condition='level.contains("WARN")'> <then> <pattern>[#|%date|%replace(%level){'WARN', 'WARNING'}|%class|%class|%logger{35} |%msg|#]%n</pattern> </then> </if> -- إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَنْ تَشِيعَ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتُمْ لا تَعْلَمُونَ My public key please use it when you contact me: هذا مفتاحي العام الرجاء أستخدامه عند الإتصال بي: 09BA B710 4B98 ECDA 8C0A 6CB1 2E1E CF88 6A12 F2C3

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loglevels coloring in netbeans
by Yihya Hugirat 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

hi all, i have moved my logging system from java.utility.loggoing to slf4j and logback. i'm using netbeans as IDE the problem is i don't get the levels colored like i was with JUL. my question is: is there a way to configure it. or to configure netbeans to color the levels from slf4j ??? i have searched the net, i have found nothing. any help will be appreciated -- إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَنْ تَشِيعَ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتُمْ لا تَعْلَمُونَ My public key please use it when you contact me: هذا مفتاحي العام الرجاء أستخدامه عند الإتصال بي: 09BA B710 4B98 ECDA 8C0A 6CB1 2E1E CF88 6A12 F2C3

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JDK14Appender for logback: Anybody written one?
by Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

Hi. I have a situation where I have a Java EE 6 web profile application which currently means that it needs to run in Glassfish 3.0.1. The appropriate way to log under Glassfish 3.0.1 is using java.util.logging which works well with slfj4-jdk14-whatever but where the _configuration_ of the logging system inside Glassfish sucks in new and exciting ways, which I have decided not to use. Hence I have figured out that what would work fine for us would be to embed logback in our application, use our usual logback configuration files which filter out those things we dont need anyway, and then let logback just end up dumping the log statements actually to be logged to java.util.logging. In other words, I need a JDK14Appender for logback. Has anyone written such a beast? It is not part of the standard logback distribution L Thanks /Thorbjørn

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Logback Useful Appenders Project
by Robert Elliot 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

Just a heads up on some code that might be useful to people: https://github.com/Mahoney/lidalia-logging It's a couple of appenders I've found useful - basically a model for decorating other appenders (by extending DecoratingAppender) together with a couple of examples, one that cleanses Groovy stack traces so you don't get all the useless frames and one that makes any appender asynchronous with a configurable number of threads used. There's an example logback.xml showing how to use them: https://github.com/Mahoney/lidalia-logging/blob/master/src/main/resources/l… At some point I might try and release this as a library via Maven, but in the meantime if anyone finds them useful go ahead, and Ceki if you fancy them for Logback. Equally if anyone has any pointers (e.g. have I reinvented the wheel?) do let me know. Rob

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logback 0.9.28 is noisy
by David Roussel 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Hi, I've done a trial upgrade to 0.9.28 and I get alot more noise to stdout than I used to get. I've seen that the 'ERROR' below is a bug that will be fixed in the next release. But is all the other stuff just being output because of the error? Will it go away once the ERRROR goes away? Thanks David 16:27:45,613 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] - Found resource [com/example/gcm/pricing/batchpricer/logback.xml] at [jar:file:/D:/maven-lo cal-repository/com/example/gcm/pricing-controller/4.1.3-SNAPSHOT/pricing-controller-4.1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar!/com/example/gcm/pricing/batchpricer/logback.xml] 16:27:45,753 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.ConfigurationWatchList@e61a35 - URL [jar:file:/D:/maven-local-repository/com/example/gcm/pricing-controller /4.1.3-SNAPSHOT/pricing-controller-4.1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar!/com/example/gcm/pricing/batchpricer/logback.xml] is not of type file 16:27:46,597 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.ConfigurationAction - debug attribute not set 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [com.example.gcm] to INFO 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [com.example.gcm.launcher] to INFO 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [com.example.gcm.pricing.params.impl] to INFO 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [com.example.sky.service.DataSynapseClient] to INFO 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [httpclient] to WARN 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [org.apache] to WARN 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [org.hibernate] to WARN 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder] to WARN 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [org.hibernate.cfg.annotations] to WARN 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [org.quartz] to WARN 16:27:47,269 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.LoggerAction - Setting level of logger [org.springframework] to WARN 16:27:48,660 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - About to instantiate appender of type [ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender] 16:27:48,707 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - Naming appender as [FILE] 16:27:48,816 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.NestedComplexPropertyIA - Assuming default type [ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder] for [encoder] property 16:27:49,019 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender[FILE] - File property is set to [\\ldn\dfs01\SKY-DEV\DEV_DR\sky\log\EOD_MTM_2011-03-31_162735.txt] 16:27:49,035 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.RootLoggerAction - Setting level of ROOT logger to INFO 16:27:49,035 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderRefAction - Attaching appender named [FILE] to Logger[ROOT] Here is my config file, /com/example/gcm/pricing/batchpricer/logback.xml And, yes 'dealpricer.logback.file' is set, so the file output is used instead of stdout. <configuration> <logger name="com.example.gcm" level="${log.level}" /> <logger name="com.example.gcm.launcher" level="INFO" /> <logger name="com.example.gcm.pricing.params.impl" level="${log.level}" />  <logger name="com.example.sky.service.DataSynapseClient" level="INFO" /> <logger name="httpclient" level="WARN" /> <logger name="org.apache" level="WARN" /> <logger name="org.hibernate" level="WARN" /> <logger name="org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder" level="WARN" /> <logger name="org.hibernate.cfg.annotations" level="WARN" /> <logger name="org.quartz" level="WARN" /> <logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN" />  <if condition='!property("dealpricer.logback.file").isEmpty()'> <then> <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender"> <encoder> <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%-16thread] %-5level %-35.35logger{30} - %msg%n</pattern> </encoder> <file>${dealpricer.logback.file}</file> </appender> <root level="${log.level}"> <appender-ref ref="FILE" /> </root> </then> <else> <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender"> <encoder> <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%-16thread] %-5level %-35.35logger{30} - %msg%n</pattern> </encoder> </appender> <root level="${log.level}"> <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" /> </root> </else> </if> </configuration> And here are my dependencies as configured in maven: <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>commons-logging</groupId> <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId> <version>1.1.1</version> <scope>provided</scope>  </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId> <version>1.6.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId> <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId> <version>0.9.28</version> </dependency> <dependency>  <groupId>janino</groupId> <artifactId>janino</artifactId> <version>2.5.10</version> </dependency> <dependency>  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId> <version>1.6.1</version> </dependency> </dependencies> -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/logback-0.9.28-is-noisy-tp31368071p31368071.html Sent from the Logback User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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