MDC and Chainsaw configuration

[Todd Flautt <tf...@csc.com>]

Greetings all ~

Can someone enlighten me as to how to set up the configuration for 
LogFilePatternReceiver as it relates to using MDC? 

Additionally, is there a way to set up a ConversionPattern in log4j that 
uses MDC but is not cognizant of the number of properties used in the MDC? 
 In other words as I understand it a ConversionPattern using MDC may looks 
something like this:

        %d %c %-5p [%t] (%F:%L) - %X[account_id] - %m 

But suppose the account_id is not always relevant for a given context?  Is 
there a way to specify the equivalent of %X without the notion of what 
property is involved?  If not I guess I can use NDC to achieve the same 
result but must worry about duplicate data being put in the context.

Thx

Todd