title: Cassandra does not log anywhere
body: <p>I start working on an old version of cassandra (1.1) that uses log4j, the problem is 'there is no logs anywhere' after some investigations i found two files from which we can change the log setting :</p>
  
  <p>1/ The log4j-server.properties, settings ares supposed to plug in syslog (but it does not work)</p>
  
  <pre><code>log4j.rootLogger=WARN,SYSLOG
  
  log4j.logger.org.apache.thrift.server.TNonblockingServer=ERROR
  log4j.appender.SYSLOG=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender
  log4j.appender.SYSLOG.SyslogHost=localhost
  log4j.appender.SYSLOG.Facility=Local0
  log4j.appender.SYSLOG.FacilityPrinting=false
  log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
  log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout.ConversionPattern=%m
  log4j.appender.SYSLOG.header = true
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>2/ The /etc/default/cassandra file which contains the $CASSANDRA_LOG_DIR (</p>
  
  <pre><code>CASSANDRA_LOG_DIR=/$USER/logs/cassandra
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have the same settings on all the servers (the syslog one with log4j and the default log file ) however cassandra can log only on some servers using the defaut file (/$USER/logs/cassandra/output.log)</p>
  
  <p>My question is : which setting cassandra uses by default ? and can we make cassandra write logs even without log4j ?</p>