Thanks, the Threshold option did it!... That's exactly what I wanted.
Perhaps the documentation for SMTP appender could reference this option
directly, since it does hint at this type of usage:
"Send an e-mail when a specific logging event occurs, typically on errors or
fatal errors."
Now I have another problem: I'm doing category.error("msg", exception), and
I don't see the stack trace in the email, but it does show up in the
logfile.
Any idea on this one?
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ceki Gülcü" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LOG4J Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: SmtpAppender for ERROR conditions
Wes,
First, have a look at the Threshold option in AppenderSkeleton. Second, by
default the SMTPAppender will hold and buffer logging messages of any
priority and trigger an email message when an error occurs with all the logs
in the buffer. Hope this helps, Ceki
At 14:01 23.02.2001 -0600, Wes wrote:
>Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I used a different return address and I
don't think it made it to the list.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Wes Rood
>To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:52 AM
>Subject: SmtpAppender for ERROR conditions
>
>We're currently logging DEBUG priority statements to std out and a log
file, now we'd like to send email for serious problems in the code.
>
>our original config file was:
>log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, STD_OUT, ROOT_FILE
>And we changed it to:
>log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, EMAIL
>log4j.category.com=DEBUG, STD_OUT, ROOT_FILE
>(I'll omit the configuration of each appender...)
>
>All of our categories are named after the full package name of the class
they're in, so "log4j.category.com" effectively covers all our categories.
>
>Is this the best way to do it?.. it just seems strange that rootCategory is
the email appender, while log4j.category.com (which is also a "root"
category) is set to what rootCategory used to be. Am I missing some
concepts?
>
>One other way would be to define a new category called "mail", and then our
code would have to instantiate another category for emailing, in addition to
the normal category named after the individual class.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Wes
>
>
>
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