Thanks Jake, Is there any way to override the configuration or remove the existing appenders.
would the call to LogManager.shutdown()and then DOMConfigurator.configure(initUrl) work. Thanks in advance, Mohammed Jacob Kjome wrote: > > Log4j configuration is cumulative. One call to configure() does not > override > another. Instead, the configurations are combined. Each time you > configure() > on a config file that defines an appender, a new one will be added rather > than > blow away the old one. Therefore you get duplicate logging as more than > one > appender is active. > > That said, it seems like this behavior was configurable? Or maybe we > merely > discussed it a while back since the default behavior is somewhat > surprising to > users? Maybe one of the other Log4j developers recalls this discussion > and > can provide details? > > > Jake > > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:17:25 -0700 (PDT) > mokader <moka...@cisco.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am adding logging enhancement to my app. There is already a log4j >> wrapper >> is available in my app. But the existing is in jar and I can not modify. >> The >> problem is, now I have two log4j.xml file. one for my enhancement and >> other >> for existing one. >> >> I first initialize existing log4j wrapper, it uses >> DOMConfigurator.configure(initUrl) to configure. After this I call my new >> APIs, I follow the same DOMConfigurator.configure(initUrl) to override >> the >> configuration. >> >> The problem here is, I have custom appender, which I specified in >> log4j.xml >> of my enhancement, but the custom appender is called twice - once from >> existing APIs and another from my APIs. >> >> I dont know how log4j is invoking my custom appeder, when existing APIs >> are >> initialized. I looked this from stack trace. >> -- >> View this message in context: >>http://old.nabble.com/Log4j-configuration-tp29285028p29285028.html >> Sent from the Log4j - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org >>For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Log4j-configuration-tp29285028p29289033.html Sent from the Log4j - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org
