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Posted to log4j-user@logging.apache.org by "Rajkumar, Pulpet" <Pu...@fmr.com> on 2004/06/03 17:43:52 UTC

RollingFileAppender behavior - is this a bug?

When I configure log4j (ver 1.2.8) to use RollingFileAppender and if I
forget to specify the filename in the configuration file, then log4j
treats the null filename as a warning and shows the message "Are you
using FileAppender instead of ConsoleAppender?"

Is this a bug and if yes is it possible to change the above behavior to
throw an error (via the errorHandler) instead of a warning? This is
similar to the way log4j acts if it encounters errors in opening the
file (specified by the RollingFileAppender property).

This way if I configure log4j to use file appenders then it will ensure
that I also specify the file name correctly.