At 09:26 27.07.2001 +0100, Tim Fox wrote:
>I've had a look but can't get it to work - this doesn't seem to be anywhere
>in the docs that describe the legal values in the configuration file -
See http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/PropertyConfigurator.html
>therefore I've just assumed that they map to the bean properties of the
>various classes involved (is this right?).
This is true for appenders and layouts. See below.
>Based on that I've added the line
>log4j.category.mercurylog.additivity=false
The syntax is
log4j.additivity.category.name=TRUE|FALSE
>Anyway, it still doesn't work (ie the damn output still ends up in all the
>appenders)- can anyone spot the mistake????
>Here's my config file
[removed stuff]
>#The mercury logging configuration
>log4j.category.mercurylog=DEBUG, MercuryLog
>log4j.category.mercurylog.additivity=false
Try:
log4j.additivity.mercurylog=false
HTH, Ceki
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ceki Gülcü [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 26 July 2001 21:21
>To: LOG4J Users Mailing List
>Subject: Re: Stopping root category from logging child categories
>
>
>
>Tim,
>
>See appender additivity. It's probably what you want.
>
>At 18:22 26.07.2001 +0100, Tim Fox wrote:
>>I'm using log4j with jboss.
>>The components in Jboss uses log4j for their logging.
>>The log4j.properties is set up with with a root category - so all the
>>messages from all the components get logged to that category.
>>I have an application running in jboss, and I want to use my own log file -
>>moreover I do not want my messages ending up in the jboss log too.
>>I have set up my own category and my messages get logged to the fine.
>>The pain in arse is that they all go the root category log too!!
>>I can't just set the priority of that category to FATAL since then I lose
>>all the messages from all the other components.
>>Is there any way to tell a category (the root category) to ignore messages
>>from specific child categories??
>>Please help, this is doing my head in!
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Ceki Gülcü - http://qos.ch
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