additivity is an attribute of the logger/category, not the appender...
As such, instead of:
log4j.category.com.printrak.me4=DEBUG, R4
log4j.additivity.R4=false
you want:
log4j.category.com.printrak.me4=DEBUG, R4
log4j.aditivity.com.printrak.me4=false
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Evans Mark-PT1167 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:12 PM
|To: 'Log4J Users List'
|Subject: additivity in PropertyConfigurator
|
|
|I need help setting the additivity in my log4j properties
|file. (It doesn't seem to be working for me.)
|
|I want to log a specific class (logger) to one file, (and
|in my example below log a second class (logger) to another
|file), while logging the rest of my classes to a third
|file (root logger).
|
|I'm using a PropertyConfigurator. However, when I set
|"additivity" on my category, per documentation, I still
|get all messages going to the root logger's file.
|
|I'm following the example at
|http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/P
|ropertyConfigurator.html
|
|which shows:
|log4j.additivity.SECURITY=false
|
|Additional additivity information is found at
|http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/manual.html#additivity
|
|where it states:
|
| Appender Additivity
| The output of a log statement of logger C will
|go to all the appenders in C and its ancestors. This is
|the meaning of the term "appender additivity".
| However, if an ancestor of logger C, say P, has
|the additivity flag set to false, then C's output will be
|directed to all the appenders in C and it's ancestors upto
|and including P but not the appenders in any of the
|ancestors of P.
| Loggers have their additivity flag set to true
|by default.
|which imply that the ancestor "P", when his additivity is
|set to false, STILL logs messages, but doesn't pass them
|to the parent. So, I guess if you set additivity on your
|logger "C", C messages will be logged, but not passed up
|to parents. (I think that's what I'm doing...)
|
|Here's the details, thanks for any help. --Mark
|
|
|
|
|I'm logging logger3 to log4j.3.log.
|I'm logging logger4 to log4j.4.log.
|I'm logging the root category to log4j.log (here are the
|messages I believe don't belong.)
|
|Code:
|...
| static Category logger3 =
|Category.getInstance("com.printrak.me3");
| static Category logger4 =
|Category.getInstance("com.printrak.me4");
|...
| PropertyConfigurator.configure("log4j.properties");
|
|
| logger3.debug("This is debug to logger3/me3.");
| logger4.debug("This is debug to logger4/me4.");
|...
|
|
|log4j.3.log:
|2003-01-22 11:00:14,896 DEBUG [main] - This is debug to
|logger3/me3.
|
|log4j.4.log:
|2003-01-22 11:00:14,906 DEBUG [main] - This is debug to
|logger4/me4.
|
|log4j.log: (why are these here with additivity set to false?)
|2003-01-22 11:00:14,896 DEBUG [main] - This is debug to
|logger3/me3.
|2003-01-22 11:00:14,906 DEBUG [main] - This is debug to
|logger4/me4.
|
|
|Configuration file:
|
|log4j.rootCategory=WARN, R
|
|log4j.category.com.printrak.me3=DEBUG, R3
|log4j.category.com.printrak.me4=DEBUG, R4
|
|log4j.category.com.printrak=DEBUG
|
|# Pattern to output the caller's file name and line number.
|
|log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
|log4j.appender.R.File=log4j.log
|og4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
|log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %5p [%t] - %m%n
|
|log4j.appender.R3=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
|log4j.appender.R3.File=log4j.3.log
|log4j.appender.R3.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
|log4j.appender.R3.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %5p [%t] - %m%n
|log4j.additivity.R3=false
|
|log4j.appender.R4=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
|log4j.appender.R4.File=log4j.4.log
|#log4j.appender.R4.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
|log4j.appender.R4.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
|log4j.appender.R4.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %5p [%t] - %m%n
|log4j.additivity.R4=false
|
|log4j.category.org.jboss=WARN
|log4j.category.com.printrak=DEBUG
|
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