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Appenders Problem

Hi All;

I would like to write to a specific file when logging from a specific class.

Below is my properties file. The class that needs the special behavior is in the model.notification package. It should be handled with the emailAppender, which in turn should only write INFO messages to the email.html file.

But what happens is email.html gets everything and fw.html gets everything plus some duplicate entries.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Luke


log4j.rootLogger=debug, generalAppender, emailAppender

#class specific loggin
log4j.category.model.notification=INFO, emailAppender
log4j.additivity.model.notification=false
log4j.category.beans=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.category.model=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.category.model.writers=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.category.servlet=DEBUG, generalAppender

#general appender properties
log4j.appender.generalAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.generalAppender.File= //usr/local/tomcat/logs/fw/fw.html
log4j.appender.generalAppender.MaxFileSize=100KB
log4j.appender.generalAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.generalAppender.MaxBackupIndex=3

#email appender properties
log4j.appender.emailAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.emailAppender.File= //usr/local/tomcat/logs/fw/email.html
log4j.appender.emailAppender.MaxFileSize=300KB
log4j.appender.emailAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.emailAppender.MaxBackupIndex=3

#general appender layout
log4j.appender.generalAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.HTMLLayout
log4j.appender.generalAppender.layout.LocationInfo=true
log4j.appender.generalAppender.layout.Title=FW Application Log

#email appender layout
log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.HTMLLayout
log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout.LocationInfo=true
log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout.Title=FW Email Log 

Re: Appenders Problem

Posted by Luke <lu...@lukeshannon.com>.
Responding to my own thread:

I made the change below to my props file and everything is fine now.

#general stuff
log4j.logger.model.notification=INFO, emailAppender
log4j.additivity.model.notification=false
log4j.logger.beans=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.logger.model=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.logger.model.writers=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.logger.servlet=DEBUG, generalAppender
#general appender properties
log4j.appender.generalAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.generalAppender.File= //usr/local/tomcat/logs/fw/fw.html
log4j.appender.generalAppender.MaxFileSize=100KB
log4j.appender.generalAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.generalAppender.MaxBackupIndex=3
#email appender properties
log4j.appender.emailAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.emailAppender.File= //usr/local/tomcat/logs/fw/email.html
log4j.appender.emailAppender.MaxFileSize=300KB
log4j.appender.emailAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.emailAppender.MaxBackupIndex=3
#general appender layout
log4j.appender.generalAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.HTMLLayout
log4j.appender.generalAppender.layout.LocationInfo=true
log4j.appender.generalAppender.layout.Title=FW Application Log
#email appender layout
log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.HTMLLayout
log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout.LocationInfo=true
log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout.Title=FW Email Log

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke" <lu...@lukeshannon.com>
To: <lo...@logging.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 8:32 AM
Subject: Appenders Problem


Hi All;

I would like to write to a specific file when logging from a specific class.

Below is my properties file. The class that needs the special behavior is in
the model.notification package. It should be handled with the emailAppender,
which in turn should only write INFO messages to the email.html file.

But what happens is email.html gets everything and fw.html gets everything
plus some duplicate entries.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Luke


log4j.rootLogger=debug, generalAppender, emailAppender

#class specific loggin
log4j.category.model.notification=INFO, emailAppender
log4j.additivity.model.notification=false
log4j.category.beans=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.category.model=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.category.model.writers=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.category.servlet=DEBUG, generalAppender

#general appender properties
log4j.appender.generalAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.generalAppender.File= //usr/local/tomcat/logs/fw/fw.html
log4j.appender.generalAppender.MaxFileSize=100KB
log4j.appender.generalAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.generalAppender.MaxBackupIndex=3

#email appender properties
log4j.appender.emailAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.emailAppender.File= //usr/local/tomcat/logs/fw/email.html
log4j.appender.emailAppender.MaxFileSize=300KB
log4j.appender.emailAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.emailAppender.MaxBackupIndex=3

#general appender layout
log4j.appender.generalAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.HTMLLayout
log4j.appender.generalAppender.layout.LocationInfo=true
log4j.appender.generalAppender.layout.Title=FW Application Log

#email appender layout
log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.HTMLLayout
log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout.LocationInfo=true
log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout.Title=FW Email Log



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