NEWBIE PROBLEM: Inheritence in property config file

[Jeff Epstein <je...@insight-interactive.com>]

I am an experienced Java programmer, but am new to log4j.  I'm confused as
to why I'm getting this error (error output and code below).

I understand that naming conventions for "inheritence" of loggers should be
the same as your class heirarchy.  Hence:  com.foo and com.foo.Bar.  But I'm
getting an error saying ":WARN No such property [bar] in
org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender."

I don't see anything relating to this in the documentation.  I don't see ANY
(complete) listing of all configuration variables avaliable to
PropertyConfigurator's Pmroperty file.

(My goal is to have com.foo.Bar inherit everything from com.foo, *except* I
want it to output only to file, instead of System.out.  I'm pretty sure that
"log4j.additivity.com.foo.Bar=false" is how to do this, but I can't get
beyond this error to confirm.  Does additivity also prevent the formatting
and LEVEL settings from being inherited?)

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THE OUTPUT
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[c:\files\a_sandbox\iig\java\development\test\log4j]java
PropertyFileBARERROR
log4j: Parsing for [root] with value=[INFO, com.foo.Bar, com.foo].
log4j: Level token is [INFO].
log4j: Category root set to INFO
log4j: Parsing appender named "com.foo.Bar".
log4j: Parsing layout options for "com.foo.Bar".
log4j: End of parsing for "com.foo.Bar".
log4j: Setting property [file] to [com_foo_Bar.log].
log4j: setFile called: com_foo_Bar.log, true
log4j: setFile ended
log4j: Parsed "com.foo.Bar" options.
log4j: Parsing appender named "com.foo".
log4j: Parsing layout options for "com.foo".
log4j: End of parsing for "com.foo".
log4j:WARN No such property [bar] in org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender.
log4j: Parsed "com.foo" options.
log4j: Finished configuring.
lgr info
lgr warn
lgr error
lgr fatal
barlgr info
barlgr warn
barlgr error
barlgr fatal

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PROPERTY FILE:  log4j_configBARERROR.txt
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# Root logger
	log4j.debug=true
	log4j.rootLogger=INFO, com.foo.Bar, com.foo

# com.foo
	log4j.appender.com.foo=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
	log4j.appender.com.foo.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout

# com.foo.Bar
	log4j.appender.com.foo.Bar=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
	log4j.appender.com.foo.Bar.file=com_foo_Bar.log
	log4j.appender.com.foo.Bar.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout

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JAVA CODE:  PropertyFileBARERROR.java
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	import org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator;
	import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class PropertyFileBARERROR  {
	public static void main(String[] as_cmdLineParams)  {
		PropertyConfigurator.configure("log4j_configBARERROR.txt");

		Logger  lgr = Logger.getLogger("com.foo");
		lgr.debug("lgr debug");
		lgr.info("lgr info");
		lgr.warn("lgr warn");
		lgr.error("lgr error");
		lgr.fatal("lgr fatal");

		Logger barlgr = Logger.getLogger("com.foo.Bar");
		barlgr.debug("barlgr debug");
		barlgr.info("barlgr info");
		barlgr.warn("barlgr warn");
		barlgr.error("barlgr error");
		barlgr.fatal("barlgr fatal");
	}
}

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Thank you!


Jeff Epstein
Internet Developer
Insight Interactive Group
302  777 0970
jepstein@insight-interactive.com


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