Hi Sam,
That appears to have done the trick!
Thanks,
Bruce.
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, ROWLEY Sam wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> I've been digging in the IdP source code and it looks like the logger
> for the transaction log is created with an unusual name so it's
> bypassing your log4j configuration.
>
> The messages you're getting in your tomcat log are generated by this
> class
>
> edu/internet2/middleware/shibboleth/idp/provider/ShibbolethV1SSOHandler.
> java
>
> which uses a transactionLog object which is created by this class
>
> edu/internet2/middleware/shibboleth/idp/IdPResponder.java
> line 108 : transactionLog = Logger.getLogger("Shibboleth-TRANSACTION");
>
> As you can see, the logger is called Shibboleth-TRANSACTION which means
> it won't get configured by any of the directives in your
> log4j.properties file. That would account for the messages appearing in
> your tomcat log.
>
> Try adding a line for this Shibboleth-TRANSACTION logger to your
> log4j.properties file. Your list of loggers should end up looking like
> this:
>
> ## Shibboleth-IdP
> log4j.logger.org.apache.xml.security=INFO, SHIB_APPENDER, SYSLOG
> log4j.logger.edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth=INFO, SHIB_APPENDER,
> SYSLOG
> log4j.logger.Shibboleth-TRANSACTION=INFO, SHIB_APPENDER, SYSLOG
>
> With any luck this will configure the Shibboleth-TRANSACTION logger to
> append it's messages to your Shibboleth IdP log and the syslog.
>
> Your idp.xml file should have the original logging section commented out
> in favour of the log4j logging section as below.
>
> <!--
> <Logging>
> <ErrorLog level="INFO"
> location="file:/usr/local/shibboleth-idp/logs/shib-error.log" />
> <TransactionLog level="INFO"
> location="file:/usr/local/shibboleth-idp/logs/shib-access.log" />
> </Logging>
> -->
> <!-- Uncomment the configuration section below and comment out
> the one above if you would like to manually configure log4j -->
> <Logging>
> <Log4JConfig
> location="file:/usr/local/tomcat5.5/common/classes/log4j.properties" />
> </Logging>
>
>
> Hope it works. Let us know how you get on.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sam
>
>
> Sam Rowley
> Learning Development Manager
> Learning Development and Innovation
> Academic Development Institute
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bruce Rodger
>> Sent: 15 August 2008 14:54
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: idp logging question
>>
>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, ROWLEY Sam wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bruce,
>>>
>>> Can you show us the contents of your log4j.properties file? The IdP
>>> configuration
>>
>> Ooop - I meant to append it to the original message!
>>
>> Largely unmodified, as far as I can see, other than the
>> addition of the SYSLOG clauses.
>>
>>
>> #### Configures Log4j as the Tomcat system logger #### #
>> Configure the logger to output info level messages into a
>> rolling logfile.
>> log4j.rootLogger=INFO, TOMCAT_APPENDER
>> #
>> # To continue using the "catalina.out" file (which grows
>> forever), # comment out the above line and uncomment the next.
>> #log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, A1
>>
>> ## Shibboleth-IdP
>> log4j.logger.org.apache.xml.security=INFO, SHIB_APPENDER,
>> SYSLOG #log4j.logger.org.apache.xml.security=DEBUG,
>> SHIB_APPENDER, SYSLOG
>> log4j.logger.edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth=INFO,
>> SHIB_APPENDER, SYSLOG
>> #log4j.logger.edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.xml=DEBUG
>> #log4j.logger.edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.idp=DEBUG
>> #log4j.logger.edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.idp.IdPRespo
>> nder=DEBUG
>> #log4j.logger.edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.idp.IdPConfi
>> gLoader=DEBUG
>> #log4j.logger.edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.aa=DEBUG
>> #log4j.logger.edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.aa.attrresolv=DEBUG
>>
>> # Configuration for standard output ("catalina.out").
>> log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
>> log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>>
>> # Configuration for a rolling log file ("tomcat.log").
>> log4j.appender.TOMCAT_APPENDER=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFi
>> leAppender
>> log4j.appender.TOMCAT_APPENDER.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
>> # Edit the next line to point to your logs directory.
>> # The last part of the name is the log file name.
>> log4j.appender.TOMCAT_APPENDER.File=${catalina.home}/logs/tomcat.log
>> log4j.appender.TOMCAT_APPENDER.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>> #log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=10
>> #log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=10MB
>> # Print the date in ISO 8601 format:
>> #log4j.appender.TOMCAT_APPENDER.layout.ConversionPattern=%d
>> [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n
>> log4j.appender.TOMCAT_APPENDER.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{HH:
>> mm:ss,SSS} [%t] %-5p %m - %c [%d{yyyyMMdd}]%n
>>
>> # Configuration for a rolling log file ("shibboleth-idp.log").
>> log4j.appender.SHIB_APPENDER=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
>> log4j.appender.SHIB_APPENDER.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
>> # Edit the next line to point to your logs directory.
>> # The last part of the name is the log file name.
>> log4j.appender.SHIB_APPENDER.File=${catalina.home}/logs/shibbo
>> leth-idp.log
>> log4j.appender.SHIB_APPENDER.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>> # Print the date in ISO 8601 format:
>> #log4j.appender.SHIB_APPENDER.layout.ConversionPattern=%d
>> [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n
>> log4j.appender.SHIB_APPENDER.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{HH:mm
>> :ss,SSS} %-5p %m - %c [%t;%d{yyyyMMdd}]%n
>>
>>
>> ## Here is a syslog example
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.syslogHost=loghost.net.strath.ac.uk
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>> #log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd-MM-yyyy
>> HH:mm:ss} %-5p (%C :%M:%L) - %m%n
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS
>> } [%t] %-5p %m - %c [%d{yyyyMMdd}]%n
>> log4j.appender.SYSLOG.Facility=LOCAL6
>>
>>
>> ###
>> ### original file contents
>> ###
>>
>> # Configuration for a rolling log file ("tomcat.log").
>> log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
>> log4j.appender.R.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
>> # Edit the next line to point to your logs directory.
>> # The last part of the name is the log file name.
>> log4j.appender.R.File=/var/log/shibboleth/tomcat.log
>> log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>> #log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=10
>> #log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=10MB
>> #
>> # Print the date in ISO 8601 format
>> log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n
>>
>>
>> #REALM log settings
>> log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.realm=DEBUG
>> #
>> # Application logging options
>> #log4j.logger.org.apache=DEBUG
>> #log4j.logger.org.apache=INFO
>> #log4j.logger.org.apache.struts=DEBUG
>> #log4j.logger.org.apache.struts=INFO#log4j.logger.org.apache.c
>> atalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina]=DEBUG, R
>> #log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core=DEBUG, R
>> #log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.session=DEBUG, R
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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