[Building Sakai] log4j + DailyRollingFileAppender problems

[Matthew Buckett]

On 26 May 2011 17:27, David Adams <da1 at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> So, that being said, there are a number of tools, at least in 2.7 and before, that pull in their own log4j jars. Is there a particular need for that setup, some reason they
> can't all use the same common/lib log4j?

I don't think there is a particular need  for the copies of log4j and
they should be removed.

> Has anyone else run into this problem or addressed it? And does anyone have any
> thoughts on how we could go about safely getting rid of the various copies? I'm not
> a developer, so I cop to being pretty vague on exactly how all the jar loading works
> and how the deployment and compilation steps interact with various libraries and
> packaging steps, etc.

I found problems with log4j with all the RSF apps:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-17877

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  Matthew Buckett
  VLE Developer, LTG, Oxford University Computing Services