Joel Think of it this way. You don't send log messages to Appenders, you send messages to Categories. Your config file determines which appenders the categories use. So, in your file you configured the rootCategory to use both LogFile and LogFile2. When send a message to rootCategory it will go to both appenders.
You need to use two different categories if you want some messages to go to LogFile and others to LogFile2. Let's say you have two classes: com.abc.Joel com.abc.Patthey In the declaration for the classes you create Category instances like this: // in Joel class static Category LOG = Category.getInstance(Joel.class.getName()); // in Patthey class static Category LOG = Category.getInstance(Patthey.class.get()); The config would look like this: log4j.category.com.abc.Joel = DEBUG, LogFile log4j.category.com.abc.Patthey = DEBUG, LogFile2 Log message from Joel go to LogFile and messages from Patthey go to LogFile2. Hope that helps. Jud Barr Principal Financial Group Des Moines, Iowa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Joel Patthey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 7:58 AM To: Log4J Users List Subject: RE: I am unable to log the messages to a file I've tried a config file like this one and then I've added another logger like this: log4j.rootCategory = DEBUG, LogFile, LogFile2 log4j.appender.LogFile = org.apache.log4j.FileAppender log4j.appender.LogFile2 = org.apache.log4j.FileAppender log4j.appender.LogFile.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.LogFile.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss} %-5p: [%m] -> %c%n log4j.appender.LogFile2.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.LogFile2.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss} %-5p: [%m] -> %c%n log4j.appender.LogFile.File = C:\\Temp\\TestLog.log log4j.appender.LogFile2.File = C:\\Temp\\TestLog2.log but then, when I log to LogFile, it writes to both file and if I write to LogFile2 it does the same. How do you setup N (i.e. more than 1) independant logger in the same config file ? -----Original Message----- From: Nicole Grübel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vendredi, 8. mars 2002 14:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I am unable to log the messages to a file I'm not sure if this is helpful, but this way I told my Config-File to log messages to a file. It's nearly the same when you use XML and it might give you an idea what you should implement in your source-code if you don't use a configuration file. log4j.rootCategory = DEBUG, LogFile log4j.appender.LogFile = org.apache.log4j.FileAppender log4j.appender.LogFile.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.LogFile.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss} %-5p: [%m] -> %c%n log4j.appender.LogFile.File = C:\\Temp\\TestLog.log I hope this helps. Nicole ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
