That may be YOUR guiding factor but it is NOT the common guiding factor. Log4j was designed to meet the large majority of needs, not your specific needs </soapbox>. I do not want my web app to come crashing to a halt because someone accidentally deletes an active logfile or log4j is misconfigured.
If this is your requirement, you are probably going to have to either: 1) Customize log4j to change it's failure mode 2) Implement customized logging where logging is part of the application and logging failure is as critical as an application failure. You can easily add a warning to the console if the log file is deleted but log4j doesn't continually throw warnings for a reason: it kills performance. -----Original Message----- From: Raveendranath, Rohith (LNG - AUS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 17:30 To: 'Log4J Users List' Subject: RE: Behaviour in Log4j when Logfile is deleted. whetrher logging activity is critcal for any application will be the guiding factor to decide whether the application should crash i case of logging failure. Morover what iam asking is should't a warning be thrown on the console saying that the logging cannot be proceeded or so -----Original Message----- From: Charles Hudak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 29 August 2003 10:23 AM To: 'Log4J Users List' Subject: RE: Behaviour in Log4j when Logfile is deleted. log4j is fail stop. Logging doesn't and shouldn't throw an exception to your application and cause it to crash. -----Original Message----- From: Raveendranath, Rohith (LNG - AUS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 17:12 To: 'Log4J Users List' Subject: Behaviour in Log4j when Logfile is deleted. Hi all, I am using Lo4j 1.2.8, During the cource of my application running i deleted the log file. Now there is no exception/error thrown. The application keeps on running ,possibly ignoring the logging part. Whys is this behaviour happening,should the log4j throw exception as its no longer finding the Log File. 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