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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Define some default values that can be overridden by system properties
+hbase.root.logger=INFO,console
+hbase.log.dir=.
+hbase.log.file=hbase.log
+
+# Define the root logger to the system property "hbase.root.logger".
+log4j.rootLogger=${hbase.root.logger}
+
+# Logging Threshold
+log4j.threshold=ALL
+
+#
+# Daily Rolling File Appender
+#
+log4j.appender.DRFA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.DRFA.File=${hbase.log.dir}/${hbase.log.file}
+
+# Rollver at midnight
+log4j.appender.DRFA.DatePattern=.yyyy-MM-dd
+
+# 30-day backup
+#log4j.appender.DRFA.MaxBackupIndex=30
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+# Debugging Pattern format
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t] %C{2}(%L): %m%n
+
+
+#
+# console
+# Add "console" to rootlogger above if you want to use this
+#
+log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
+log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t] %C{2}(%L): %m%n
+
+# Custom Logging levels
+
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem=DEBUG
+
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop=WARN
+log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=ERROR
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase=DEBUG
+
+#These settings are workarounds against spurious logs from the minicluster.
+#See HBASE-4709
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsConfig=WARN
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSinkAdapter=WARN
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSystemImpl=WARN
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.util.MBeans=WARN
+# Enable this to get detailed connection error/retry logging.
+# log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionImplementation=TRACE