The entire wording/phrasing of your email leads me to suspect that you are using the example jetty server provided with solr (ie: java -jar start.jar) and that you aren't clear on the distinction between the logs generated by jetty and the logs generated by solr.
the simple instance of Jetty thta you get when running java -jar start.jar does request logging into the example/logs directory -- while various debug/info/warn/error messages from the java code are all configured to be logged to the console specificly because it's an example, we want you to see what types of things are logged. For a "real" installation of Solr, i would recommend you look into something line init.d or "services" in windows (i think that's what they are called) to ensure that the servlet container is started as a daemon (independent of your user session). You can then configure your serlvet container to log anyway you want it to... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrLogging That said: "request" logging from your servlet container only knows about the HTTP level request/response information -- it has no way of knowing about things like number of hits. those things are logged by Solr, but there is a single log message per request that does includes this information, so you can configure LogHandlers to direct copies of these specific messages to a special file (i can't remember the pattern off the top of my head) : Hello, : : I would like to log the solr console. although solr logs requests in : timestamped format, this only logs the requests, i.e. does not log : number of hits for a given query, etc. : : is there any easy way to do this other then reverting to methods for : capturing solr output. I usually run solr on my server using screen : command first, running solr, then detaching from console. : : but it would be nice to have output logging instead of request logging. : : best regards, : c.b. : -Hoss
