SmtpAppender for ERROR conditions

[Wes Rood <wr...@bnyclearing.com>]

We're currently logging DEBUG priority statements to std out and a log file, now we'd like to send email for serious problems in the code.

our original config file was:
log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, STD_OUT, ROOT_FILE

And we changed it to:
log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, EMAIL
log4j.category.com=DEBUG, STD_OUT, ROOT_FILE

(I'll omit the configuration of each appender...)

All of our categories are named after the full package name of the class they're in, so "log4j.category.com" effectively covers all our categories.

Is this the best way to do it?.. it just seems strange that rootCategory is the email appender, while log4j.category.com (which is also a "root" category) is set to what rootCategory used to be.  Am I missing some concepts?

One other way would be to define a new category called "mail", and then our code would have to instantiate another category for emailing, in addition to the normal category named after the individual class.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Wes







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RE: SmtpAppender for ERROR conditions

[Rex Madden <re...@microcreditcard.com>]

I believe by default, the SMTPappender only logs errors and fatals, so you
should just be able to add it to your original root category (or you can
keep using your .com category, it doesn’t matter).  Each appender also has a
threshold option, whereby you can set it to only log errors and higher.  For
example, we only log info and higher to our std_out, since we don’t want to
see all debug statements on our console.  Then our file appender logs
everything, and our email appender does just errors and higher.  Sounds like
pretty much like what you want as well.

See the AppenderSkeleton in the javadoc for the threshold option, and the
SMTPAppender for the email explanation.

Sorry for giving you more than what you asked for.  Hope I didn’t confuse
you more.

Rex

-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Rood [mailto:wrood@bnyclearing.com]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 12:53 PM
To: log4j-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: SmtpAppender for ERROR conditions

We're currently logging DEBUG priority statements to std out and a log file,
now we'd like to send email for serious problems in the code.

our original config file was:
log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, STD_OUT, ROOT_FILE
And we changed it to:
log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, EMAIL
log4j.category.com=DEBUG, STD_OUT, ROOT_FILE
(I'll omit the configuration of each appender...)

All of our categories are named after the full package name of the class
they're in, so "log4j.category.com" effectively covers all our categories.

Is this the best way to do it?.. it just seems strange that rootCategory is
the email appender, while log4j.category.com (which is also a "root"
category) is set to what rootCategory used to be.  Am I missing some
concepts?

One other way would be to define a new category called "mail", and then our
code would have to instantiate another category for emailing, in addition to
the normal category named after the individual class.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Wes







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