https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56776
--- Comment #3 from Violeta Georgieva <violet...@apache.org> --- Hi, I tried the following: - Configured log4j to output Tomcat's internal logging as described here [1] - Deleted the content of the logging.properties - Started Tomcat with security manager and -Djava.security.debug=all The error that I received was: access: access denied (java.io.FilePermission \C:\tc7.0.x\output\build\lib\ log4j.properties read) java.lang.Exception: Stack trace at java.lang.Thread.dumpStack(Thread.java:1249) at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:364) at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:549) at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:532) at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkRead(SecurityManager.java:871) at sun.misc.URLClassPath.check(URLClassPath.java:416) at sun.misc.URLClassPath.checkURL(URLClassPath.java:390) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findResource(URLClassLoader.java:389) at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:1002) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.Loader.getResource(Loader.java:110) at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:109) at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:104) at org.apache.juli.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.getLogger(Log4JLogger.java:262) at org.apache.juli.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.<init>(Log4JLogger.java:108) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at org.apache.juli.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.createLogFromClass(LogFactoryImpl.java:1025) at org.apache.juli.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.discoverLogImplementation(LogFactoryImpl.java:844) at org.apache.juli.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:541) at org.apache.juli.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:292) at org.apache.juli.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:269) at org.apache.juli.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:657) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.<clinit>(Catalina.java:925) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:238) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425) Then I added the following to the catalina.policy: grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar" { ... permission java.io.FilePermission "${catalina.base}${file.separator}lib${file.separator}log4j.properties", "read"; ... Then I restarted Tomcat and everything was OK. I cannot reproduce the exception. Regards Violeta [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/logging.html#Using_Log4j -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org