I'm interested in creating a mechanism to have a system-wide
configuration file for all .NET applications using log4net. I'd like
all logging statements from various web applications and other .NET
services to be managed via one configuration file. I haven't found a
good way to do that with the existing code base. I've used log4j for
years, and have always passed "-Dlog4j.configuration=..." into my
application startup. There doesn't seem to be a similar mechanism in
log4net.
I'm considering a couple options for addressing this, and I'd
appreciate any recommendations or feedback.
* Create an ConfiguratorAttribute class that looks for an environment
variable ("log4net.configuration") in order to locate the log4net
configuration file.
* Create a ConfiguratorAttribute class that retrieves config file
location from a machine.config appSettings key (e.g. <add
key=3D"log4net.configuration" value=3D"file:///C:/log4net.xml" />)
* Update the XmlConfigurator to use one or both of these methods for
finding the configuration details.
Any thoughts on the best way to proceed?
Thanks,
Pat.
