Hi Olson, java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=etc/logging.properties -jar start.jar should do the trick. There is an information about this in README.txt
--- On Mon, 1/21/13, O. Olson <olson_...@yahoo.it> wrote: > From: O. Olson <olson_...@yahoo.it> > Subject: Enable Logging in the Example App > To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Date: Monday, January 21, 2013, 6:02 PM > Hi, > > I am really > new to Solr, and I have never used anything similar to it > before. So please > pardon my ignorance. I downloaded Solr > 4.0 from http://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html and start > it using the commandline: > > >java -jar start.jar > > This generates a number of INFO log messages to the > console, > that I would like to better view. > > What is the > best way to send these log messages to a file? I see a logs > directory, but it > seems to be empty. I first tried to add the log4j.properties > in the “etc” > directory as mentioned in http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrLogging. > I then started solr on the commandline: > > >java -jar start.jar > -Dlog4j.configuration=file:etc/log4j.properties > > This does not give me any log files. I would appreciate any > ideas in this regard i.e. the easiest way to get logging > into the example app. > > Thank you, > O. O. >