Hey, thanks mdhaney! I see none of these options in the logback file, so I can't really mute them. For instance I'd definitely mute the datomic.process-monitor one, but I can't see it. I tried and commented everything in it : the process-moniitor logs are still visible in my REPL...

Thanks @U05120CBV! Usually I do clj -A:rebel:dev in a terminal with :

:dev {:extra-paths ["dev"]
                 :extra-deps {
                              org.clojure/tools.namespace {:mvn/version "0.3.1"}
                              org.clojure/java.classpath {:mvn/version "0.3.0"}
                              }}
           :rebel {:extra-deps {com.bhauman/rebel-readline {:mvn/version "0.1.4"}}
                    :main-opts  ["-m" "rebel-readline.main"]}

But I seem to recall the logs were also "polluting" the REPL with the Emacs CIDER integration for instance.

Whats in your logback.xml?

I have commented most of the lines and the logs from datomic.process-monitor are still coming to the REPL :

<configuration>

  <!-- prevent per-message overhead for jul logging calls, e.g. Hornet -->
  <contextListener class="ch.qos.logback.classic.jul.LevelChangePropagator">
    <resetJUL>true</resetJUL>
  </contextListener>

  <appender name="MAIN" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
    <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
      <fileNamePattern>${DATOMIC_LOG_DIR:-log}/%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>
      <maxHistory>72</maxHistory> 
    </rollingPolicy>
    <prudent>true</prudent> <!-- multi jvm safe, slower -->
    <encoder>
      <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5level %-10contextName %logger{36} - %msg%n</pattern>
    </encoder>
  </appender>

 <!--  <logger name="datomic.cast2slf4j" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <!-- uncomment to log storage access -->
  <!-- <logger name="datomic.kv-cluster" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <!-- uncomment to log transactor heartbeat -->
  <!-- <logger name="datomic.lifecycle" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <!-- uncomment to log transactions (transactor side) -->
  <!-- <logger name="datomic.transaction" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <!-- uncomment to log transactions (peer side) -->
  <!-- <logger name="datomic.peer" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <!-- uncomment to log the transactor log -->
  <!-- <logger name="datomic.log" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <!-- uncomment to log peer connection to transactor -->
  <!-- <logger name="datomic.connector" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <!-- uncomment to log storage gc -->
  <!-- <logger name="datomic.garbage" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <!-- uncomment to log indexing jobs -->
  <!-- <logger name="datomic.index" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <!-- these namespsaces create a ton of log noise -->
   <!-- <logger name="httpclient" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="org.apache.commons.httpclient" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="org.apache.http" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="org.jets3t" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="com.amazonaws" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="com.amazonaws.request" level="WARN"/>
  <logger name="sun.rmi" level="INFO"/> 
  <logger name="net.spy.memcached" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="com.couchbase.client" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="org.apache.zookeeper" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="com.ning.http.client.providers.netty" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="org.eclipse.jetty" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="org.hornetq.core.client.impl" level="INFO"/>
  <logger name="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool" level="INFO"/> -->

 <!--  <logger name="datomic.cast2slf4j" level="DEBUG"/> -->

  <root level="info">
    <appender-ref ref="MAIN"/>
  </root>
</configuration>

This above is the logback from bin/ in the datomic folder. There is no other logback.xml file in the folder of the project.

After checking, even if I just launch `

clj 

try commenting on the appender entirely this line <appender-ref ref=“MAIN”/>

you may have a global system redirect somewhere on your local machine that’s resulting in terminal appender instead of file

Ok makes sense! Trying this immediately!

hmm so I just commented the one line you mentioned, leaving <root level="info" etc, but no, still coming relentlessly to my REPL.

I am on WSL (ubuntu 18.04) on an otherwise Windows 10 laptop. I just don't see where I would have created the redirect that you mention. Normally I get from the rest of the file that I should get these logs as files with a 3 day rolling history. I am going to look for those files in the install folder.

yep I do get daily log files in the log folder as well... Am I looking at a conflict of logging policies, would you say that could cause the double logging?

try taking logback out of your peer app dependencies

what all is in your deps.edn?

if you have no logback in your classpath, it will default to logging in your terminal

this is separate from the transactor logs

which is what the logback in the datomic distribution controls

i would put the configs back they way they were in the datomic logback

then create a logback in your peer application (or remove the logback dependency from your deps.edn)

This is my deps.edn file of the project:

{:mvn/repos
 {"" {:url ""}}
 :deps
 {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.10.1"}
  buddy/buddy-auth {:mvn/version "2.2.0" :exclusions [cheshire]}
  com.datomic/datomic-pro {:mvn/version "0.9.5951" :exclusions [org.slf4j/slf4j-nop]}
  com.stuartsierra/component {:mvn/version "0.4.0"}
  org.slf4j/slf4j-simple {:mvn/version "1.7.28"}
  org.clojure/tools.logging {:mvn/version "0.5.0"}
  com.stuartsierra/component.repl {:mvn/version "0.2.0"}
  io.pedestal/pedestal.service {:mvn/version "0.5.7"}
  io.pedestal/pedestal.route   {:mvn/version "0.5.7"}
  io.pedestal/pedestal.jetty   {:mvn/version "0.5.7"}
  com.draines/postal {:mvn/version "2.0.3"}
  clj-template {:mvn/version "1.0.1"}
  com.velisco/clj-ftp {:mvn/version "0.3.12"}
  buddy/buddy-sign {:mvn/version "3.1.0"}
  clj-time {:mvn/version "0.15.2"}
  tupelo-datomic {:mvn/version "0.9.2"}}
 :paths ["src" "resources"]}

So basically I was messing with the wrong file, ok, I'll put it back to what it was before

So you are saying the datomic.process-monitoring logs are different from the transactor logs. Does that mean that whatever dependency I have for a logging framework in my classpath is doing all this?

I see this sentence on the github page of tools.logging : "You can redirect all java writes of `System.out` and `System.err` to the log system by calling `log-capture!`

Is it me misusing tools.logging or slf4j as I see a lot of slf4j dependencies in a clj -Stree command...?

you have org.slf4j/slf4j-simple {:mvn/version “1.7.28”} in your des

deps

if you have slf4j in your deps and no logback.xml in your classpath you will get default logging behavior from datomic peer library

to your console

you can either remove that dep or make a logback file with the configs you actually want

Oh I see! I wanted to use slf4j because I think I felt I had to choose something like that to use tools.logging.

So I need to build a logback file and put it on my classpath. Makes perfect sense! Many thanks for taking the time to debug this rookie issue @U05120CBV! Much appreciated!