Remove dead logger prefix code

When Log4j 2 was introduced, we removed support for the system property
es.logger.prefix. Yet, some code was left behind. This commit removes
that dead code.

Relates #25377

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap.java
index 74fc600d62..4674f1ea93 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap.java
@@ -266,13 +266,6 @@ final class Bootstrap {
         }
     }
 
-    /** Set the system property before anything has a chance to trigger its use */
-    // TODO: why? is it just a bad default somewhere? or is it some BS around 'but the client' garbage <-- my guess
-    @SuppressForbidden(reason = "sets logger prefix on initialization")
-    static void initLoggerPrefix() {
-        System.setProperty("es.logger.prefix", "");
-    }
-
     /**
      * This method is invoked by {@link Elasticsearch#main(String[])} to startup elasticsearch.
      */
@@ -281,9 +274,6 @@ final class Bootstrap {
             final Path pidFile,
             final boolean quiet,
             final Environment initialEnv) throws BootstrapException, NodeValidationException, UserException {
-        // Set the system property before anything has a chance to trigger its use
-        initLoggerPrefix();
-
         // force the class initializer for BootstrapInfo to run before
         // the security manager is installed
         BootstrapInfo.init();