Grails service logging does not initialize - grails

Question

The only way I can get the logging to work in my service is to add this to my service:
class MyService {
def log = LogFactory.getLog(getClass())
...
My log4j settings in Config.groovy:
log4j = {
PatternLayout patternLayout = new PatternLayout("%d [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n")
debug 'grails.app.controllers',
'grails.app.controller',
'grails.app.domain',
'grails.app.service',
'grails.app.filters',
'com.mycompany'
// 'org.springframework.security'
'org.hibernate.SQL'
error 'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet', // controllers
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.pages', // GSP
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh', // layouts
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping.filter', // URL mapping
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping', // URL mapping
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons', // core / classloading
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins', // plugins
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate', // hibernate integration
'org.springframework',
'org.hibernate',
'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate'
appenders {
appender new org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender(name: "console",
threshold: org.apache.log4j.Level.DEBUG,
layout: patternLayout
)
}
root {
error 'stdout'
additivity = true
}
}
I would have thought the logging would work in a service without having to add def log... at the top.

Answer 1

grails.app.service should be grails.app.services. This changed in version 2.0.
You can easily find out the logger name in an artifact by adding
println log.name
to a test method and calling it.