i wrote a log server that eats the stuff coming from a bunch of sockethandlers on other devices and writes it to a log file which looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE log SYSTEM "logger.dtd">
<log>
<record>
<date>2016-05-15T06:40:03</date>
...
</record>
...
i am new to chainsaw.
chainsaw can open these files using: load java util file.
if i add a simple receiver for port 4445, i get a bind exception.
if i add a simple receiver for port 4560, i get the connection lost.
i do not have any config files and am unsure about how to write one.
if i can get the simple receiver to work, can chainsaw rollover the log files and separate the log files by the device they are coming from?
thanks
edit 1: looks like that reveiver may use: org.apache.log4j.xml.XMLDecoder, which may not be the correct one. this post suggests: org.apache.log4j.xml.UtilLoggingXMLDecoder. manually trying this does not seem to work.
edit 2: thanks to scott deboy on the log4j mailing list, this config file worked:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration >
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/" debug="true">
<plugin name="XMLSocketReceiver" class="org.apache.log4j.net.XMLSocketReceiver">
<param name="decoder" value="org.apache.log4j.xml.UtilLoggingXMLDecoder"/>
<param name="Port" value="2222"/>
</plugin>
<root>
<priority value="debug"/>
</root>
</log4j:configuration>
edit 3: added a rollover:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration >
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/" debug="true">
<plugin name="XMLSocketReceiver" class="org.apache.log4j.net.XMLSocketReceiver">
<param name="decoder" value="org.apache.log4j.xml.UtilLoggingXMLDecoder"/>
<param name="Port" value="2222"/>
</plugin>
<appender name="fileAppender" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
<param name="Threshold" value="INFO" />
<param name="File" value="sample.log"/>
<layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%c{1}] %m %n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<priority value="debug"/>
<appender-ref ref="fileAppender" />
</root>
</log4j:configuration>
this seems to work, but all of the chainsaw logging (as well as my stuff) is in the log file.