Customize logging events with tracing configuration files

Tracing configuration files are ASCII files that customize the logging of message and trace events for C language-based servers, daemons, and other C-language programs and applications.

To customize logging of message and trace events for Java™ applications, see Java properties files.

At application startup, the application-specific tracing configuration file is read. With the tracing configuration file content, you can control the following aspects of logging event activity:
  • Whether to enable logging for specific event classes.
  • Where to direct the output for each event class.
  • How many log files to use for each event class.
  • How large each log file can be for each event class.