Am I missing something here? Can't you effectively turn off a category
by not assigning it any appenders (and additivity=false)?
I do admit that I'm very new to Log4j, so I must be missing something.
--Eugene
Ceki Gülcü wrote:
>
> As you have mentioned in your initial message you can turn off logging for a
>*specific* category for all priorities lower than FATAL. You can turn off logging
>entirely for a whole hierarchy by calling the hiearchy.disableAll method.
>
> You seem to want to turn off logging for a given category for FATAL messages as
>well. Why would you want to turn off logging for fatal messages?
>
> In any case, an OFF priority will be available in log4j version 1.2. It is already
>in our CVS rep. Regards, Ceki
>
> At 16:15 30.07.2001 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >I'm wondering if the answer is extending Priority to accomodate
> >Priority.OFF?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Sam Newman"
> > <sam.newman@stam To: "LOG4J Users Mailing List"
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> > plets.com> cc: (bcc: Craig
>Reichenbach/CAM/Lotus)
> > Subject: disabling categories (was:
>channels in Log4j)
> > 07/30/2001 05:48
> > AM
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> >
> >
> >Gotcha. Sorry if I was appering thick :-). From looking at the code, I
> >couldn't see the expected category.disable or similar method (or am I
> >wrong?) so I guess the only way to disable the logging to a category would
> >be to either wrap the use of the category with your own code (e.g. check is
> >activity before logging) or to remove all the attached appenders. Any
> >veteran Log4j people out here with a better idea?
> >
> >sam
> >----- Original Message -----
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> >To: "LOG4J Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 3:22 PM
> >Subject: Re: channels in Log4j
> >
> > Can you turn off a Category or only set it as high as FATAL and
> >> have log methods that are lower than cat.fatal()? IE as per my other
> >post,
> >> I would like to achieve this:
> >>
> >> log4j.category.foo.bar=OFF, utilFile
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Craig
> >>
>
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> Ceki Gülcü - http://qos.ch
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