hello I'm sorry for asking this boring question but after hours of experiments and even reading a (quite old) book I cant find a solution. So maybe someone can give me a hint what i am doing wrong.
The plan is to have an application log file and a performanceLog file which contains only certain messages ("PhasesLogger"). At the moment the messages for the performanceLog end up in the root logger too. This is my log config: log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG,R log4j.logger.PhasesLogger=DEBUG,performanceLogger log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.R.File=/home/tomcat/tomcat/logs/log.log log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=10000KB log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=10 log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%-6p] %30c - %m%n # log4j.appender.R.threshold=ERROR # Performance Appender: log4j.appender.performanceLogger=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.performanceLogger.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.performanceLogger.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%-6p] %14c - %m%n log4j.appender.performanceLogger.File=/home/tomcat/tomcat/logs/performanceLogger.log log4j.appender.performanceLogger.MaxFileSize=10000KB log4j.appender.performanceLogger.MaxBackupIndex=10 # log4j.appender.performanceLogger.threshold=DEBUG The performanceLogger is retrieved like this: private static final Logger PLOG = Logger.getLogger("PhasesLogger"); PLOG.debug("things..."); how can i turn off to have the log messages for the phases/performanceLogger end up in the rootLogger file too? any hints are welcome! regards ossi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org