This post is OBE. See Log4j2 Sample Config **NOTE: With the build from November 10 #579 the location of all the files in runtime/karaf/etc have moved to userdata/etc. The instructions below have been updated accordingly. If you are running an older verison of openHAB (anything older than build #579)…

Do these instructions still apply to the current release? Is there anything different if running on Windows as a Windows Service?

The OP is out of date. See some of the later posts in the thread or Log4j2 Sample Config . There is nothing different with the configs when running on Windows.

[image] rlkoshak: There is nothing different with the configs when running on Windows. What exactly do you mean?

[image] Spaceman_Spiff: What exactly do you mean? The log4j config file is identical when running on all platforms. One does not need to do anything special to make logging work when running on Windows as a service.

I totally broke all openhab logging after I edited the org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg file. Now nothing is logging at all. I replaced the text of the file with what I found in the org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg.dpkg-old file but no luck. I’ve restarted it several times, used the openhabian config tool to ins…

[image] NathanNotNate: here is the file as it sits now That is not the content of the original file. Grab it from here and copy it to your file.

Sure enough, that did it. I could have sworn I tried that in my attempts to fix it. Thanks.

[image] Spaceman_Spiff: I was asking something similar here: Logging TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy Unfortunately in openhab2 the nice xml config file is gone so I can not transfer knowledge from the docs. Can anyone elabor… Unfortunately official documentation is for the xml file which was disco…

I replied with my ideas on your original thread. I must have missed it when you first posted.

How do I clear the openhab.log file (not the console log which is explained in the documentation)? Mine got to 15MB in size during the last install. Thanks.