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-/*
- *  This file is part of the Heritrix web crawler (crawler.archive.org).
- *
- *  Licensed to the Internet Archive (IA) by one or more individual 
- *  contributors. 
- *
- *  The IA 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.
- */
-package org.archive.crawler.util;
-
-import java.io.File;
-import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
-import java.util.logging.FileHandler;
-import java.util.logging.Formatter;
-import java.util.logging.Logger;
-
-import org.archive.util.PropertyUtils;
-
-/**
- * Logging utils.
- * @author stack
- */
-public class LogUtils {
-    /**
-     * Creates a file logger that use heritrix.properties file logger
-     * configuration.
-     * Change the java.util.logging.FileHandler.* properties in
-     * heritrix.properties to change file handler properties.
-     * Use this method if you want a class to log to its own file
-     * rather than use default (console) logger.
-     * @param logsDir Directory in which to write logs.
-     * @param baseName Base name to use for log file (Will have
-     * java.util.logging.FileHandler.pattern or '.log' for suffix).
-     * @param logger Logger whose handler we'll replace with the
-     * file handler created herein.
-     */
-    public static FileHandler createFileLogger(File logsDir, String baseName,
-            Logger logger) {
-        int limit =
-            PropertyUtils.getIntProperty("java.util.logging.FileHandler.limit",
-            1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024);
-        int count =
-            PropertyUtils.getIntProperty("java.util.logging.FileHandler.count", 1);
-        try {
-            String tmp =
-                System.getProperty("java.util.logging.FileHandler.pattern");
-                File logFile = new File(logsDir, baseName +
-                    ((tmp != null && tmp.length() > 0)? tmp: ".log"));
-            FileHandler fh = new FileHandler(logFile.getAbsolutePath(), limit,
-                count, true);
-            // Manage the formatter to use.
-            tmp = System.getProperty("java.util.logging.FileHandler.formatter");
-            if (tmp != null && tmp.length() > 0) {
-                Constructor<?> co = Class.forName(tmp).
-                    getConstructor(new Class[] {});
-                Formatter f = (Formatter) co.newInstance(new Object[] {});
-                fh.setFormatter(f);
-            }
-            logger.addHandler(fh);
-            logger.setUseParentHandlers(false);
-            return fh; 
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            logger.severe("Failed customization of logger: " + e.getMessage());
-            return null; 
-        }
-    }
-}