On-going logging problems

[anw]

Tomcat 6.0, despite having this in my code:

public class AppInitializer implements ServletContextListener
{
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent e)
{
log2.log(Level.FINEST, "\n************ In contextInitialized **************\n");
System.out.println("\n************ In contextInitialized **************\n");
System.out.flush();
System.err.println("\n************ In contextInitialized **************\n");
System.err.flush();

<snip>

private static Logger log2= Logger.getLogger("3info-dev.org.apache");

I can't get anything to display in any of the log files. Here is my logging.properties:

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# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

# Logging levels: SEVERE, WARNING, INFO, CONFIG, FINE, FINER, FINEST or ALL

handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 3info-dev.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
.level=WARNING

############################################################
# Handler specific properties.
# Describes specific configuration info for Handlers.
############################################################

1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = WARNING
1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = catalina.

2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = WARNING
2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = localhost.

3info-dev.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = ALL
3info-dev.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
3info-dev.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = info-dev.

java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = ALL
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter

############################################################
# Facility specific properties.
# Provides extra control for each logger.
############################################################

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level = INFO
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].handlers = 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[info-dev].[/infoisland].level = ALL
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[info-dev].[/infoisland].handlers = 3info-dev.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
# org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[info-dev].[/infoisland].handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

utils.AppInitializer.level = ALL

# For example, set the com.xyz.foo logger to only log SEVERE
# messages:
#org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.level = FINE
#org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.level = FINE
#org.apache.catalina.session.ManagerBase.level = FINE
#org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.level=FINE

and here are the log files that are produced-

catalina.xxx.log:

Aug 8, 2009 7:06:40 PM org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabase save
WARNING: User database is not persistable - no write permissions on directory

info-dev.log:

Aug 8, 2009 7:06:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
FINE: Sending application start events
Aug 8, 2009 7:06:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart
FINE: Starting filters

localhost.log:

<null>, i. e., nothing in log

ANY ideas why my console AND my log file are being sent to a black hole? BTW, I have also set and unset swallowOutput="true" multiple times in my <Context> tag.

[anw]

In my init.d startup script, I discovered this:

$DAEMON -user "$TOMCAT6_USER" -cp "$JSVC_CLASSPATH" \
-outfile SYSLOG -errfile SYSLOG \
-pidfile "$CATALINA_PID" $JAVA_OPTS "$BOOTSTRAP_CLASS"

(Note the SYSLOG entries) which I changed to this:

$DAEMON -user "$TOMCAT6_USER" -cp "$JSVC_CLASSPATH" \
-outfile /var/log/tomcat6/stdout.log -errfile /var/log/tomcat6/stderr.log \
-pidfile "$CATALINA_PID" $JAVA_OPTS "$BOOTSTRAP_CLASS"

so now I have an stderr and stdout in my log directory, but it still doesn't have any of my System.err.println's in it

[anw]

Well, I'm not too sure what I did, but now I'm getting the System.err.println messages in the aforementioned stderr.log. After I pointed (in the init.d script) command line arguments (outfile=... and errfile=...) I started getting messages in this file, but none of mine. I looked, and somewhere along the line, I made my <Context> tag this:

<Context path="" docBase="" swallowOutput="true" debug="5"
reloadable="true"
antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="false">

As I'm sure you gurus know, the "debug=" attribute is not a documented attribute for the Context tag (I saw it somewhere, and put it in). Tomcat never did complain, but I removed it, making the Context tag this:

<Context path="" docBase="" swallowOutput="true" reloadable="true"
antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="false">

And now everything works. Not sure what happened. I did not start out with that in the context tag. I'm wondering if maybe I had an OS glitch?

Thanks for all the help!!