When problems occur with using the SIARD Suite, it is useful to save an execution log. Such a log (or – for security reasons – fragments of it) should accompany error reports to maintenance.

To create such a log, proceed as follows:

The file logging.properties is found in the etc folder in the SIARD distribution. In this file, logging with level WARNING is redirected to the console and all levels are directed to a log file %t/siard2%u.log. Here the %t indicates the temporary folder (value of the TEMP or TMP environment variable) and the %u is replaced by a number. Under Windows this will result in something like C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\siard20.log).

The global level is initially set to INFO. More logging can be enabled by changing the line
.level=INFO
to
.level=ALL.
This will slow down execution.