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Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki commented on LOG4J2-1972: ---------------------------------------------------- [~ralph.go...@dslextreme.com] Thanks a lot for very fast responce. > The "packages" attribute in appender configuration reporting ERROR > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: LOG4J2-1972 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1972 > Project: Log4j 2 > Issue Type: Question > Environment: Linux Red Hat. > Reporter: Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki > Priority: Minor > > We are using Log4j2 v. 2.8. > We have own appender configuration more less: > {code:xml} > <MyAppender name="MyAppender" ignoreExceptions="false" > packages="my.company.myappender.log4j2"> > ... > <CustomField name="sourceApplication">my-app</CustomField> > </MyAppender> > {code} > In the documentation [Property > Substitution|https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html#Property%20Substitution] > we can read: > packages A comma separated list of package names to search for plugins. > Plugins are only loaded once per classloader so changing this value may not > have any effect upon reconfiguration. > But anyhow we got error: > {{2017-07-10 16:37:03,017 localhost-startStop-3 ERROR MyAppender contains an > invalid element or attribute "packages"}} > How shall we handle this attribute? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)