Lyle,
Welcome to the forums.
Lyle Ryan wrote:
Our Solaris system is running jboss-4.2.3.GA
I want to reduce some of our logging from DEBUG leve and have found the jboss-log4j.xml file. Are configurations like this managed by directly editing the text file, or should it all be done through a web interface?
AS-4.x did not have an admin console. AS-5 does have one. However, for changes like this, the usual approach is to edit the file in a text editor. Even the new admin console in AS-5 doesn't have an option to change this file at runtime (and persist those changes on server restart). So yes, editing it in a text editor is fine.
Lyle Ryan wrote:
Any pointers to a starting point in the documentation for a SysAdmin without a lot of java knowledge would be appreciated.
This might be good start https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossApplicationServerOfficialDocumentationPage. I don't know about JBoss AS-4, but for JBoss AS-5, there's JBoss In Action book http://www.manning.com/jamae/