Sample log4j configuration for Grails application

README.md

Configuring log4j in Grails

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Tips

• If you wanna reference your own configuration in log4j config section, use Holders as shown
• If you wanna use DailyRollingFileAppender or any other appenders that are not pre-loaded, please import org.apache.log4j.*
• You can define variables like that
• You can use different environment settings

Config.groovy

import org.apache.log4j.*
import grails.util.Holders

myconfig {
    myvariable {
        workdir = 0
    }
}

log4j = {
    def pattern = new PatternLayout("[%p] [%c{3}] %m%n")

    appenders {
        appender new DailyRollingFileAppender(
                        name:"file",
                        file:"${Holders.config.myconfig.myvariable.workdir}/app.log",
                        layout: pattern,
                        datePattern: "'.'yyyy-MM-dd")

        rollingFile name:"stacktrace", 
                    file:"${Holders.config.myconfig.myvariable.workdir}/stacktrace.log", 
                    maxFileSize:'100KB'
        
        console name:"stdout",
                layout: pattern
    }

    root { 
        environments {
            production {
                error "file"
            }
            development {
                error "file", "stdout"
            }
        }
    }

    error   'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet',        // controllers
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.pages',          // GSP
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh',       // layouts
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping.filter', // URL mapping
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping',        // URL mapping
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons',            // core / classloading
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins',            // plugins
            'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate',      // hibernate integration
            'org.springframework',
            'org.hibernate',
            'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate'

    warn    'org.springframework',
            'org.hibernate',
            'grails.plugins.springsecurity',
            'groovyx.net.http'

    all     'grails.app'
    
}

My config.groovy

def pattern = new PatternLayout('%d{dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS} %5p %c{2} - %m%n')
    environments{
        development{
            appenders{
                appender new ConsoleAppender(
                        name: 'stdout',
                        layout: pattern
                )
                appender new DailyRollingFileAppender(
                        name:"file",
                        file:"/home/logs/app.log",
                        layout: pattern,
                        datePattern: "'.'yyyy-MM-dd")            }
        }
        production{
            appenders {
                appender new DailyRollingFileAppender(
                        name:"file",
                        file:"/home/logs/app.log",
                        layout: pattern,
                        datePattern: "'.' yyyy-MM-dd")

                rollingFile name:"stacktrace",
                        file:"/home/logs/stacktrace.log",
                        maxFileSize:'10mb'

                appender new ConsoleAppender(
                        name: 'stdout',
                        layout: pattern
                )
            }
        }
    }
    root {
        info("file" ,"stdout")
           }

Rollover at midnight each day not working . It only saves single file app.log without date ,According to the documentation ,there should be 1 log each day which should roll over at midnight eachday .Is there something that i am missing?