Send the native log to syslog

The default native log appender tries to write to native.log in the
Apache log directory, but since that directory is not writable by the
Apache web user (regular Apache logs are handled by the root process),
the logs normally go nowhere.  Change the default to log to syslog so
the logs at least go somewhere.

diff --git a/configs/native.logger.in b/configs/native.logger.in
index 78ff4ff..2927392 100644 (file)
--- a/configs/native.logger.in
+++ b/configs/native.logger.in
@@ -26,10 +26,23 @@ log4j.category.XMLTooling.libcurl=INFO
 
 # define the appender
 
-log4j.appender.native_log=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
-log4j.appender.native_log.fileName=@-SHIRELOGDIR-@/native.log
-log4j.appender.native_log.maxFileSize=1000000
-log4j.appender.native_log.maxBackupIndex=10
-#log4j.appender.native_log.layout=org.apache.log4j.BasicLayout
-log4j.appender.native_log.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.native_log.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} %p %c %x: %m%n
+# This is the default, but it's essentially useless under normal
+# circumstances since Apache doesn't have access to write to that
+# directory.
+#log4j.appender.native_log=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
+#log4j.appender.native_log.fileName=@-SHIRELOGDIR-@/native.log
+#log4j.appender.native_log.maxFileSize=1000000
+#log4j.appender.native_log.maxBackupIndex=10
+##log4j.appender.native_log.layout=org.apache.log4j.BasicLayout
+#log4j.appender.native_log.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+#log4j.appender.native_log.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} %p %c %x: %m%n
+
+# Use syslog instead, since then at least the messages will go somewhere.
+# That facility is (3 << 3) or LOG_DAEMON, since log4cpp apparently
+# doesn't recognize symbolic log facilities.
+#
+# This is a Debian-specific change.
+log4j.appender.native_log=org.apache.log4j.LocalSyslogAppender
+log4j.appender.native_log.syslogName=shibboleth-sp
+log4j.appender.native_log.facility=24
+log4j.appender.native_log.layout=org.apache.log4j.BasicLayout