diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2893ef0..8df98e6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -26,4 +26,5 @@ target/
 lib/
 baseq2/
 baseq2.rar
-TODO.txt
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+TODO.txt
+qconsole.log
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diff --git a/resources/log4j2.xml b/resources/log4j2.xml
index 2235f2c..f86c176 100644
--- a/resources/log4j2.xml
+++ b/resources/log4j2.xml
@@ -4,10 +4,14 @@
         <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
             <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%-5level] (%t) \{%logger{36}\} %msg%n"/>
         </Console>
+        <File name="File" fileName="qconsole.log" append="true">
+            <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%-5level] (%t) \{%logger{36}\} %msg%n"/>
+        </File>
     </Appenders>
     <Loggers>
         <Root level="all">
             <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
+            <AppenderRef ref="File"/>
         </Root>
     </Loggers>
 </Configuration>
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diff --git a/src/lwjake2/qcommon/Com.java b/src/lwjake2/qcommon/Com.java
index 6bdc76b..ee00dda 100644
--- a/src/lwjake2/qcommon/Com.java
+++ b/src/lwjake2/qcommon/Com.java
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ import lwjake2.server.SV_MAIN;
 import lwjake2.sys.Sys;
 import lwjake2.util.PrintfFormat;
 import lwjake2.util.Vargs;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
 
 /**
  * Com
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
  */
 public final class Com
 {
-
+	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Com.class);
     static String debugContext = "";
     static String _debugContext = "";
     
@@ -356,50 +356,12 @@ public final class Com
 		Console.Print(msg);
 
 		// also echo to debugging console
-		Sys.ConsoleOutput(msg);
-
-		// logfile
-		if (Globals.logfile_active != null && Globals.logfile_active.value != 0)
-		{
-			String name;
-
-			if (Globals.logfile == null)
-			{
-				name= FS.Gamedir() + "/qconsole.log";
-				if (Globals.logfile_active.value > 2)
-					try
-					{
-						Globals.logfile = new RandomAccessFile(name, "rw");
-						Globals.logfile.seek(Globals.logfile.length());
-					}
-					catch (Exception e)
-					{
-						// TODO: do quake2 error handling!
-						e.printStackTrace();
-					}
-				else
-					try
-					{
-						Globals.logfile= new RandomAccessFile(name, "rw");
-					}
-					catch (FileNotFoundException e1)
-					{
-						// TODO: do quake2 error handling!
-						e1.printStackTrace();
-					}
-			}
-			if (Globals.logfile != null)
-				try
-				{
-					Globals.logfile.writeChars(msg);
-				}
-				catch (IOException e)
-				{
-					// TODO: do quake2 error handling!
-					e.printStackTrace();
-				}
-			if (Globals.logfile_active.value > 1); // do nothing
-			// fflush (logfile);		// force it to save every time
+		while (msg.startsWith("\n")) { msg = msg.substring(1); }
+		while (msg.endsWith("\n")) { msg = msg.substring(0, msg.lastIndexOf("\n")); }
+		while (msg.endsWith("\r")) { msg = msg.substring(0, msg.lastIndexOf("\r")); }
+		msg = msg.trim();
+		if (!msg.isEmpty()) {
+			logger.info(msg);
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/lwjake2/sys/Sys.java b/src/lwjake2/sys/Sys.java
index 42acc99..d190064 100644
--- a/src/lwjake2/sys/Sys.java
+++ b/src/lwjake2/sys/Sys.java
@@ -229,18 +229,4 @@ public final class Sys extends Defines {
         return null;
     }
 
-    public static void ConsoleOutput(String msg) {
-        if (Globals.nostdout != null && Globals.nostdout.value != 0)
-            return;
-
-        while (msg.startsWith("\n")) {
-            msg = msg.substring(1);
-        }
-        while (msg.endsWith("\n")) {
-            msg = msg.substring(0, msg.lastIndexOf("\n"));
-        }
-
-        logger.info(msg);
-    }
-
 }
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