2008/5/19 Senaka Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> This is my thought on continuing the polling mechanism. When we read the
> log4j.xml at startup, if this issue is likely to crop-up we should initiate
> a controlled shutdown after logging the warning.

Yes, this is the straightforward case - if someone has a bad file on
startup just log it and die.

>  If, this happens during
> operation the warning must be logged once, and we will continue with the
> previous known values.

OK. The question is whether you can do this without modifying log4j?

> If the error is corrected, this property that withheld the
> warning will be reset and, a debug message will be logged explaining that
> the problem was corrected.

Do you meant that you will try to detect which particular property is
invalid? In general, is that not impossible?

RG

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