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+<configuration scan="true" scanPeriod="10 seconds">
+    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.ThresholdFilter">
+            <level>TRACE</level>
+        </filter>
+        <encoder class="ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder">
+            <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
+  <!--
+    <appender name="APPLICATION" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
+        <File>log/ebean.log</File>
+        <filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.ThresholdFilter">
+            <level>TRACE</level>
+        </filter>
+        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
+            <FileNamePattern>log/application.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}</FileNamePattern>
+            <MaxHistory>90</MaxHistory>
+        </rollingPolicy>
+        <encoder class="ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder">
+            <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+    -->
+
+    <root level="WARN">
+        <!--<appender-ref ref="APPLICATION"/>-->
+        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
+    </root>
+
+    <logger name="nz.ac.auckland" level="DEBUG"/>
+</configuration>
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