Hi Chris,

Have a look at the "configureAndWatch" methods 
on DOMConfigurator and PropertyConfigurator..

Regards,

Simon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Gunn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 5:17 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Changing Category priority while a program is running
> 
> Is there a way to change a Category's priority while the program is
> running?
> i.e. is there a way to tell log4j to reparse the properties file when it
> changes (or maybe every few minutes)?
> I would like to be able to do the following:
> 1. look at log file and notice message at error level for Category "Test".
> 2. change properties file so that priority for "Test" is now DEBUG instead
> of ERROR.
> 3. recreate condition that caused the ERROR and now see DEBUG notices
> also.
> 
> I would like to be able to do all this without restarting program since it
> is a long running server process with a long startup time.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Gunn
> 
> 
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