Customized Log4J for File Appender and Syslog Appender

["Ahmed, Yassir" <ya...@mackenziefinancial.com>]

Hi,

I need some help configuring Log4j. The requirement is that all the "info" logging goes to File Appender. But all the "error" logging go to unix syslog. I did this without any problems

log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout, logfile, syslog
log4j.appender.logfile=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.logfile.File=/log/keystone/keystone.log
log4j.appender.logfile.datePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.logfile.append=true
log4j.appender.logfile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.logfile.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%c] - <%m>%n

log4j.appender.syslog = org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender
log4j.appender.syslog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.syslog.SyslogHost=localhost
log4j.appender.syslog.Facility=KERN
log4j.appender.syslog.threshold=ERROR


Now, we want to have more control on sending messages to syslog. For example, we want to have a log error message that also add customized description with the message. Something like
log.error ("module name", GLOBAL.ERROR, "short description", "action to be taken by support guys") and no develper should be able to call
log.error("String")

Any idea whats the best way to do this.

Thank you



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