Hello to you! I'am currently trying log4j and find it very useful. But there is one problem left. I using log4j inside of tomcat with a webapplication and i want to configure the file location of a FileAppender relative to my webapplication path. So i tried to configure all parameters in a xml file - using DOMConfigurator to load the information. After that i patched the file location ( using setFile(), activateOptions() ) to be relative to my webapplication path. The Problem is that the DOMConfiguration activates the xml configuration directly during configuration loading. Is it possible to disable this direct activation or disable a appender first until i have patched the information for the file ? thanx horst --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]