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Posted to log4j-user@logging.apache.org by "Rajkumar, Pulpet" <Pu...@fmr.com> on 2004/06/02 16:36:24 UTC

How to change behavior of FileAppender

Hello,

When I configure log4j (ver 1.2.8) to use FileAppender and if I forget
to specify the filename in the configuration file, then log4j treats the
null filename as a warning and shows the message "Are you using
FileAppender instead of ConsoleAppender?"

Is it possible to change the above behavior to throw an error (via the
errorHandler) instead of a warning? This is similar to the way log4j
acts if it encounters errors in opening the file (specified by the
FileAppender property).

This way if I configure log4j to use file appenders then it will ensure
that I also specify the file name correctly.

Thanks
Rajkumar