Have you enabled automatic printing of status messages in case of warming or errors?
(see http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#automaticStatusPrinting)
It will go to your console.
From: logback-user-bounces@qos.ch [mailto:logback-user-bounces@qos.ch] On Behalf Of Tony Trinh
Sent: 25. august 2012 23:57
To: logback users list
Subject: Re: [logback-user] Problem with Logging in Linux
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Oliver Zemann <oliver.zemann@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, i have the absolut identical file for Windows which works as
expected (logging), but not for linux:
http://rifers.org/paste/show/1801
There is just no logging - i started everything as root. Even when i
use the FileAppender with its file name property set to "somelog.log"
or "/root/somelog.log" it just saves nothing and i have no idea why.
I used updatedb && locate to find a file called like this but there
was nothing. Also lsof with a grep find nothing opened. So it is
really not logging.
Regards,
Oli
Your config for the RollingFileAppender is missing the <file> element. The manual contains a good example of all the necessary elements [1]. logback should print a warning in the debug output for this.
It would be helpful if you provided additional details to reproduce the problem:
* What version of logback and slf4j are you using?
* Which flavor (and version) of Linux are you running?
* Does the same problem occur when you try your logback config in a simple HelloWorld app (outside of install4j)?
FYI, your logback config works (writes to a file) for me in Android.
It looks like Install4j supports a console [2], when running the installer with "-c". It might be worth seeing if logback's debug-output prints in that console.