[🐛 Bug]: selenium-server v4.28.0 writes log on stdout instead of dedicated log file

[zefkide]

What happened?

Hello

I'm running selenium grid in hub and nodes architecture. Configuration is in toml files. Logging section is (pretty standard) :

[logging]
log-encoding = "UTF-8"
log-file = "/var/log/selenium/sel4hub.log"
log-level = "INFO"
plain-logs = true
structured-logs = false

When I start the hub or a node with the jar v4.27 the output goes to log file /var/log/selenium/sel4hub.log but when I use version v28 the output goes to stdout and nothing is wrote in the log file.

HUB : java -jar selenium-server-4.28.0.jar hub --config config.toml
NODE : java -jar selenium-server-4.28.0.jar node --config config.toml
java -version
openjdk version "17.0.13" 2024-10-15 LTS

Best regards,
Marius

How can we reproduce the issue?

java -jar selenium-server-4.28.0.jar standalone --log /var/log/selenium/test.log

Relevant log output

log goes to stdout

Operating System

RH9

Selenium version

4.28.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

chrome 132.0.6834.110

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

132.0.6834.110

Are you using Selenium Grid?

4.28.0

[github-actions]

@zefkide, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[pujagani]

Thank you for sharing the details. I was able to reproduce it. It was caused by the changes made as part of 16b0074. I am identifying the right solution to fix it.

[Delta456]

This issue can be closed as #15197 has been merged which has the fix for this.