Crowd catalina.out logs shows different date format at startup
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Summary
Problem
At startup, Crowd shows logs in US formatting like Feb 14,201711:30:00 AM and then switches to standard formatting like 2017-02-14 11:30:00
See the following catalina.out logs as an example:
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Feb 14, 2017 11:17:41 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /Users/sbrannen/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.
Feb 14, 2017 11:17:42 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8095"]
Feb 14, 2017 11:17:42 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 562 ms
Feb 14, 2017 11:17:42 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Feb 14, 2017 11:17:42 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.69
Feb 14, 2017 11:17:42 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor /Users/sbrannen/atlassian/crowd/crowd2101/install/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/crowd.xml
Feb 14, 2017 11:17:51 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig execute
INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.
2017-02-14 11:17:51,410 localhost-startStop-1 INFO [ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/crowd]] No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath
2017-02-14 11:17:51,410 localhost-startStop-1 INFO [ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/crowd]] No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath
2017-02-14 11:17:52,508 localhost-startStop-1 WARN [com.atlassian.config.ApplicationConfig] Application home does not exist. Creating directory: /Users/sbrannen/atlassian/crowd/crowd2101/home
2017-02-14 11:17:52,508 localhost-startStop-1 WARN [com.atlassian.config.ApplicationConfig] Application home does not exist. Creating directory: /Users/sbrannen/atlassian/crowd/crowd2101/homeDiagnosis
Environment
Tomcat 7
Cause
Tomcat 7 by default bases the date formatting off of locale, this was changed in Tomcat 8. In Crowd, both Tomcat and log4j write to the catalina.out file which is why there is a mix of dates.
Solution
Resolution
Stop Crowd
Add the following to the end of <crowd-install>/apache-tomcat/conf/logging.properties
1 2# Added to change date/time format 1catalina.java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format=%1$tF %1$tT %2$s%n%4$s: %5$s%6$s%nStart Crowd
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