You also put a colon ':' in FINEST, :
BTW, this will give you a _lot_ of output.... Best, Erick On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 6:17 AM, KRIS MUSSHORN <mussho...@comcast.net> wrote: > SOLR 5.4.1 > > log files have this entry > > > log4j:ERROR Could not find value for key log4j.appender.: file > log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate appender named ": file". > > > Here is my config file and the only thing i have changed is set level to > FINEST in line 3. Otherwise this is the default file. > > # Logging level > solr.log=logs > log4j.rootLogger=FINEST,: file, CONSOLE > > log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender > > log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout > log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r %-5p (%t) > [%X{collection} %X{shard} %X{replica} %X{core}] %c{1.} %m%n > > #- size rotation with log cleanup. > log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender > log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=100MB > log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=9 > > #- File to log to and log format > log4j.appender.file.File=${solr.log}/solr.log > log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout > log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5p > (%t) [%X{collection} %X{shard} %X{replica} %X{core}] %c{1.} %m\n > > log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=WARN > log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop=WARN > > # set to INFO to enable infostream log messages > log4j.logger.org.apache.solr.update.LoggingInfoStream=OFF >