See the the appender "additivity" flag in the Category class. It's your friend.
http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/Category.html#setAdditivity(boolean)
All see the "Appender Additivity" in user manual. Ceki
At 10:12 21.06.2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm trying...
>I've read through the manual a bunch of times.
>I've read through the "Adding Conversion Characters to PatternLayout" sevreal
>times.
>I've even been up and down the log4j-user mailing list archives a few times.
>
>We are currently using log4j in the "out of the box way" --> a log4j.properties
>file, a single hierarchy...
>
>In every class we instantiate a Category object in this manner:
> Category log = Category.getInstance( this.getClass().getName() );
>
>We say log.error("An error message"); and it gets logged to both appenders, A1,
>A2 (see log4j.properties file below):
>
>Here is what I want to do: With all else remaining the same (ei. An instance of
> Category with the five pre-configured priorities in each
>class - like above), I want to have another Appender (say a JDBCAppender for
>this example) that receives all messages that
>are to be called like this:
>
> auditLog.audit("Send this to the security audit trail DB only"); or,
>alternately, I would be happy with
>
>auditLog.debug("...");auditLog.info("...");auditLog.warn("...");auditLog.error("...");auditLog.fatal("...");
>
>But I only want the auditLog messages to go to one Appender, the other log
>messages would go to A1, A2 (see below).
>
>Do I need to extend Category? Do I need to worry about a new Hierarchy? ??????
>Please, if possible, could anyone create a bulleted list ( a sentence a piece )
>of what needs to be done?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Tim
>
>log4j.configDebug=false
>log4j.defaultInitOverride=false
>log4j.rootCategory=, A1, A2
>log4j.appender.A1=org.log4j.RollingFileAppender
>log4j.appender.A1.Append=true
>log4j.appender.A1.File=config/YYY1/logs/yyy_web.log
>log4j.appender.A1.MaxFileSize=1MB
>log4j.appender.A1.MaxBackupIndex=10
>log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.log4j.PatternLayout
>log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p at %c{5}.%M(%13F:%L) %3x -
>%m\n
>log4j.appender.A2=org.log4j.net.SyslogAppender
>
># this information is used by the yyy log system
>log4j.appender.A2.SyslogHost=yyyyy
>
>log4j.appender.A2.Facility=LOCAL0
>log4j.appender.A2.FacilityPrinting=
>log4j.appender.A2.layout=org.log4j.PatternLayout
>log4j.appender.A2.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p at %c{5}.%M(%13F:%L) %3x - %m\n
>log4j.category.examples=ERROR
>
>
>
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