RE: configuration problem.

[Fuerst, Thomas]

Try the following:   public static Category CAT = org.apache.log4j.Category.getInstance(Log4jEmailTest.class.getName());   public static void main(String[] args)   {     String fileName = "c:/tmp/log4j.config";     File checkFile = new File(fileName);     if (fileName != null && new File(fileName).exists())     {       PropertyConfigurator.configure(fileName);       CAT.error("File "+checkFile.getName()+" found!");     }     else     {         CAT.debug(" file or fileName is missing");     }     for (int i=0;i<15;i++)     {       CAT.error("Test error, error, test, test, fatal error i = "+i);     }   } As you can see you need to specify a certain file.   Here is an example for the content of you config file #------------------------------------------root category----------------------- # Set root category priority to DEBUG and its appenders to sysout. log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, sysout, SMTPTest # sysout is set to be a FileAppender which outputs to System.out log4j.appender.sysout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender # the following line only if all the logging should to System.out as well #log4j.appender.sysout.File=System.out     # sysout also uses PatternLayout. log4j.appender.sysout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.sysout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n   -----Original Message----- From: Sonia Jose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: configuration problem. Hi.. I am new to Log4j and I as I was going through the mannual I saw MyApp. java. With BasicConfigurator.configure() the program works fine. But when I use PropertyConfigrator, where to keep the properties file. How should I name the properties file? Is it *.properties? When I run the java program, how to associate this properties file to the program.   Thanks Sonia