That's correct, that's indeed what happens (I hope I didn't botch the explanation before!)
The problem though is that I have about 10 packages to log, hence the com.company specification, to cover them all. However, now I'm trying to exclude certain classes, about 20 it looks like, spread across almost all 10 packages. >From what I understand (I think!), unless there is a way to exclude certain things from a category, I'd have to (a) write a custom filter, which might be an option or (b) set up a category that includes all the classes EXCEPT those I don't want logged... while some I may be able to catch at the package level, most I won't because they would include some of those "do not log" classes, so I'm looking at potentially hundreds of category definitions at the class level... obviously not the way to go :) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Thu, July 7, 2005 3:55 pm, Ford, Peter said: > > The way I read this, if you call log.error() then the message will be > logged to the APPINFOFILE and APPERRORFILE appenders because the level > of the message ("error") is >= the threshold level on both appenders > (one is ERROR, the other is DEBUG). I think. > > --Pete > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:45 PM >> To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org >> Subject: XML config questino >> >> Hi all... I have what I thought would be a simple question, but it's >> completely beating me... >> >> I am using the XML config file seen below, Log4J 1.2.8. The problem I >> have is that anything that calls log.error() in my code goes to >> appError.log as I want, but it *ALSO* goes to appInfo.log. I >> need it to >> *ONLY* go to appError.log. >> >> Problem is, I haven't been able to figure out how to >> configure that. I >> thought I could just add another category, but because I have >> classes all >> throughout the app in various packages, this doesn't seem to >> be the right >> answer. >> >> Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks! >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >> <!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd"> >> <log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/";> >> <appender name="CONSOLE" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender"> >> <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/> >> <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"> >> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %l %x- %m\n" /> >> </layout> >> </appender> >> <appender name="APPINFOFILE" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender"> >> <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/> >> <param name="File" value="appInfo.log"/> >> <param name="Append" value="false"/> >> <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"> >> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %l %x- %m\n" /> >> </layout> >> </appender> >> <appender name="APPERRORFILE" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender"> >> <param name="Threshold" value="ERROR"/> >> <param name="File" value="appError.log"/> >> <param name="Append" value="false"/> >> <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"> >> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %l %x- %m\n" /> >> </layout> >> </appender> >> <appender name="APPAGINGFILE" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender"> >> <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/> >> <param name="File" value="appAging.log"/> >> <param name="Append" value="false"/> >> <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"> >> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %l %x- %m\n" /> >> </layout> >> </appender> >> <category name="com.company" additivity="true"> >> <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" /> >> <appender-ref ref="APPINFOFILE" /> >> <appender-ref ref="APPERRORFILE" /> >> </category> >> <category >> name="com.company.app.daemonthreads.AgingProcessDaemonThread" >> additivity="true"> >> <appender-ref ref="APPAGINGFILE" /> >> </category> >> </log4j:configuration> >> >> -- >> Frank W. Zammetti >> Founder and Chief Software Architect >> Omnytex Technologies >> http://www.omnytex.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
