hi guys, i actually got the following error message every time, i run my application: log4j:ERROR No appenders could be found for category (MORe Application). log4j:ERROR Please initialize the log4j system properly. as a result of this error i got neather logging on screen nor in a file, as desired by my property-file: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Set root category to debug and its only appender to R log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, stdout, R #log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, R #stdout set to be a console appender log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender #stdout uses PatternLayout log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p [%t] (%F:%L) - %m%n #R appender log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.R.File=LHMORe.log log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=100KB #Keep one backup file log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=1 log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p [%t] (%F:%L) - %m%n ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- i use the logging in the following way: i have a singleton which reads in the properties and instanciates the category object with them (PropertyConfigurator.configure(props)). there is also a method to deliver this category object to each class which needs to log to this configuration (that mean to this file, screenlogging becomes disabled later). as result, each class is logging to the same category object. on the windows develpoment system, this works nearly pretty good, but an the solaris there is no logging at all. neather an screen nor in the desired file. can you please help me? thanks in advance, oliver --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]