How can I prevent a log file from getting created?

[Jayesh Vora <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

In my code, I call PropertyConfigurator.configure() method to
configure my log files. This creates the log files at the specified
location if they are not present.

If before this, I know (at runtime) that I am not going to use a
particular log file and instead I want to use a new log file (I can do
this with the help of code below), how can I prevent "creation" of the
original log file? Please note that I can't change log4j configuration
file for this, because at runtime I decide to take a different course.

code fragment:
      FileAppender appender = (FileAppender) logger.getAppender("SomeFile");

      Layout lo = appender.getLayout();

      appender.close();
      logger.removeAppender(appender);

      FileAppender app2 = null;

      try {
          app2 = new FileAppender(lo, "D:/log/new_file.log", true);
      } catch (Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      }

      logger.addAppender(app2);

Thanks,
Jayesh

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