[Opensim-users] configuring the log files

[Ursula MATOVA]

+1

That could be nice if that configuration option could be included in the distribution, because when you run OpenSim in something like "production" mode, your log files are growing so fast that you could get some performances issues writing in them.

I'm using such configuration options for a very very long time and it's very useful.

Regards.
Ursula.

----- Mail Original -----
De: "Mic Bowman" <cmickeyb at gmail.com>
À: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de, scisim-discuss at googlegroups.com
Envoyé: Mercredi 20 Janvier 2010 09h03:01 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
Objet: [Opensim-users] configuring the log files


a discussion on the opensim IRC today left me wondering if most people are missing information on configuring the logging in OpenSim. if you're running a simulator you've probably run across the OpenSim.exe.config file. and possibly even changed the logging level from Debug to something less verbose. i thought i'd pass on another tip... you can set up log file rotation by adding another appender to the configuration (this gets around the problem of having *really* big OpenSim.log files lying around). add the following just after the close tag ("</appender>") for the "LogFileAppender": 

<appender name="LogFileRotate" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender"> 
<file value="OpenSim.log-" /> 
<rollingstyle value="Date" /> 
<appendToFile value="true" /> 
<maximumFileSize value="500KB" /> 
<maxSizeRollBackups value="5" /> 
<staticlogfilename value="false" /> 
<datePattern value="yyyy-MM-dd" /> 
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> 
<conversionPattern value="%date{HH:mm:ss} %-5level - %logger %message%newline" /> 
</layout> 
</appender> 

and then add change the root tag like this: 

<root> 
<level value="DEBUG" /> 
<appender-ref ref="Console" /> 
<appender-ref ref="LogFileRotate" /> 
</root> 

that will create the log files of the form OpenSim.log-yyyy-mm-dd with a maximum size of 500KB. we run multiple simulators & put all our logs into a single directory by changing the <file> tag to point to the log directory. 

this configuration was inspired by the examples in the log4net wiki: http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/config-examples.html 

--mic 


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