Thanks for mentioning the stack trace problem. It is fixed in log4j 1.1b1 to be
released within minutes. Ceki
At 15:21 23.02.2001 -0600, you wrote:
>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]>;
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 2:15 PM
>Subject: Re: SmtpAppender for ERROR conditions
>
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>
>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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