Fits service log written to incorrect location

[dannylamb]

By default, the fits-service is expecting its log to be in /usr/share/tomcat7/logs, but our logs are actually in /var/log/tomcat7 as per our apt-get install.

We need to find out how we can tell the fits service to try and set up logging in /var/log/tomcat7.

[acoburn]

Here's what I do -- put this in the log4j.properties file:

## FITS Logging
log4j.appender.fits=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.fits.File=${catalina.home}/logs/fits-service.log
log4j.appender.fits.Threshold=INFO
log4j.appender.fits.Append=true
log4j.appender.fits.MaxFileSize=5MB
log4j.appender.fits.MaxBackupIndex=10
log4j.appender.fits.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.fits.layout.ConversionPattern=%d${date-pattern} - %5p - %c{1}:%L - %m%n

log4j.logger.uk.gov.nationalarchives=INFO, fits
log4j.logger.edu.harvard.hul.ois=INFO, fits
log4j.logger.org.apache.tika=INFO, fits
log4j.additivity.org.apache.tika=false
log4j.additivity.uk.gov.nationalarchives=false
log4j.additivity.edu.harvard.hul.ois=false

You can set the location of that log4j.properties file like so: JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Dlog4j.configuration=/etc/tomcat/log4j.properties" (unless you have something else that overrides that location, such as fuseki, in which case you can just add the above to $FUSEKI_HOME/log4j.properties)

[ruebot]

Spinning up an environment to see if this is still an issue.

[ruebot]

@acoburn JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Dlog4j.configuration=/etc/tomcat/log4j.properties" does that override all Tomcat application log4j.properties files? Or, I guess said another way, If I only put FITS log4j.properties information in that file, will it continue using what Fedora and Blazegraph have defined, or will I need to include that in the file as well?

[ruebot]

Close? claw-vagrant is deprecated.

[ruebot]

This is still an issue on the Playbook:

root@islandora8:/var/log/tomcat8# grep fits-service.log catalina.out 
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat8/logs/fits-service.log (No such file or directory)

I'll put in a PR on https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/ansible-role-fits