https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-prevents-application-to-log/m-p/73125#M14950 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I'm testing Splunk to monitoring the log of an application. The logs are generated with log4j.<BR /> When I configure Splunk to index the log file, no more activity is traced by the application.</P> <P>When using tail in command line, I don't have the problem.</P> <P>How can I configure splunk not to lock the file ?</P> <P>Best regards,<BR /> Laurent</P> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:07:12 GMT laurentjehu 2011-09-12T11:07:12Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-prevents-application-to-log/m-p/73125#M14950 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I'm testing Splunk to monitoring the log of an application. The logs are generated with log4j.<BR /> When I configure Splunk to index the log file, no more activity is traced by the application.</P> <P>When using tail in command line, I don't have the problem.</P> <P>How can I configure splunk not to lock the file ?</P> <P>Best regards,<BR /> Laurent</P> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:07:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-prevents-application-to-log/m-p/73125#M14950 laurentjehu 2011-09-12T11:07:12Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-prevents-application-to-log/m-p/73126#M14951 <P>I have found a solution by adding a syslog appender to the log configuration file of log4j.<BR /> Splunk has been set up to listen on port UDP 514.</P> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:33:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-prevents-application-to-log/m-p/73126#M14951 laurentjehu 2011-09-14T12:33:34Z