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Asked: 2026-06-07T02:27:23+00:00

First up – yes, I have read the multiple questions & answers on this

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First up – yes, I have read the multiple questions & answers on this topic, and can’t get any of the solutions within those to help me. I’m not running Tomcat or JBoss and I don’t have a web.xml file to change. I’m using Java 6.0 and log4j-1.2.8.jar.

I am creating a runnable jar file with IDEA IntelliJ with jar libraries packaged separately and linked via the manifest. I am running my code on a Linux server thus:

me@server:/mydir> java -jar code/myjar.jar
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (FactoredEventsForTrna).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

My log4j configuration file (which I’ve placed both in mydir and mydir/code, just in case) is:

## Logger configure file for myproject
log.dir=log/
datestamp=yyyy-MM-dd/HH:mm:ss.SSS
log4j.rootLogger=TRACE, file, proappender, console

log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.file.maxFileSize=1GB
log4j.appender.file.maxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.file.File=log/mydebug.log
log4j.appender.file.threshold=TRACE
log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{${datestamp}} %5p: %c{2} - %m%n

log4j.appender.proappender=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.proappender.maxFileSize=5GB
log4j.appender.proappender.Threshold=INFO
log4j.appender.proappender.File=log/myinfo.log
log4j.appender.proappender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.proappender.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{${datestamp}} %5p: %c{2} - %m%n

log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.console.Threshold=DEBUG
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{${datestamp}} %5p: %c{2} - %m%n

And I have created the log/ directory in mydir and mydir/code, again, just in case.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are many possible options for specifying your log4j configuration. One is for the file to be named exactly “log4j.properties” and be in your classpath. Another is to name it however you want and add a System property to the command line when you start Java, like this:

    -Dlog4j.configuration=file:///path/to/your/log4j.properties

    All of them are outlined here http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/manual.html#defaultInit

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