JIRA logs same message twice into logs and Console

Summary

JIRA logs same message twice (duplicated) into:

• atlassian-jira.log
• Console: catalina.out at Linux and stdout.log at Windows

Snippet from atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties

log4j.logger.com.atlassian = WARN, console, filelog
log4j.additivity.com.atlassian = false

Expected Results

Log messages are logged only once where it's relevant.

Actual Results

Log messages are logged twice. There are 2 problems caused by this:

• Double the logging, so system can running out of space.
• Console doesn't log rotated by JIRA, so it needs to be done by user. At windows this is not a simple task.

Notes

(Optional - If Necessary)

Workaround

TBD