Nicolas,
This should go to the users list. Ceki
At 18:52 16.07.2001 -0400, Nicolas Marchildon wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a critical process that I want to monitor. Whenever there is an error, I
>want to be emailed all the debugging information, consisting of the DEBUG
>statements starting from the beginning of the process.
>
>At the beggining of the critical process, I set up a SMTPAppender, and add it
>to the root category. When I'm done, I remove the appender. I set up the
>SMTPAppender to send its buffer on ERRORs.
>
>I realized I was e-mailed only with the ERROR log statement, without the DEBUG
>ones, and I looked at the log4j source code to figure out why. The SMTPAppender
>does not seem to use its buffer really much, because it does not get all the
>events it should.
>
>In org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton.doAppend(LoggingEvent), I saw the
>following:
>
> if(!isAsSevereAsThreshold(event.priority)) {
> return;
> }
>
>When I comment this out, the SMTPAppender gets the logging statements and adds
>them to its buffer.
>
>But I think it also means all appenders will get the log statements even if
>they were set up to receive them beginning at a specified threshold. Therefore,
>commenting out this "isAsSevereAsThreshold" check is not a solution.
>
>My advice is that there should be two thresholds for the SMTPAppender. The
>first is the current standard threshold. The SMTPAppender would not get events
>with lesser importance than this threshold.
>
>The other threshold would be the one that would actually trigger the e-mail to
>be sent, and would be specific to the SMTPAppender. By default, it could be set
>to be the same as the standard threshold, so the class behaves as it does right
>now.
>
>Does that makes sense?
>
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