My suggestion works for log4j 1.2 only. As for log4j.rootCategory=INFO, have you set the level (i.e priority) of other loggers (categories)?
At 16:51 20.05.2002 +0100, you wrote: >I asked (in the developer forum) how to turn off logging from the >configuration file and Ceki kindly replied as below (basically saying to >set log4j.threshold=OFF). This doesn't appear to have any effect. I'm >using log4j 1.1.3. > >Perhaps there are some other problems in my configuration file (below). > >log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, A1 >log4j.threshold=OFF >log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender >log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout >log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%p - %-16c - %m%n > >I tried the log4j.threshold=OFF in various places. > >Also, surprised to see that if I set log4j.rootCategory=INFO, A1 this >suppresses some (but not all) my INFO trace. This surprised me a) because >I thought this statement meant "please show me all INFO trace" and b) >because I can't see any obvious difference between the statements which >still come out and those which do not. > >I'm going to try the XML configuration to see if that helps, but any ideas >on the above greatly appreciated! >Thanks >Rob Henley > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ceki Gülcü" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Log4J Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 4:01 PM >Subject: Re: turn off logging > >You can set the threshold of an entire logger hierarchy to OFF > >Example in properties (key=value) format: > >log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, CON >log4j.appender.CON=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender >log4j.appender.CON.layout=org.apache.log4j.SimpleLayout > ># Turn all logging OFF for all loggers regardless of the logger. >log4j.threshold=OFF > >You can achieve the same in In XML format: > ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> ><!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd"> > ><log4j:configuration threshold="OFF" > xmlns:log4j='http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/'> > > <appender name="STDOUT" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender"> > <layout class="org.apache.log4j.SimpleLayout"/> > </appender> > > <root> > <level value="DEBUG" /> > <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" /> > </root> ></log4j:configuration> > >The important attribute is [threshold="OFF"] > >HTH, Ceki > >ps: By the way, this is the wrong forum. Your question should have been >asked on the >log4j-user list. -- Ceki -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
