Thank you very much, that was exactly what I wanted. I want to store the error logs also separately because my logs files are pretty big (100000 lines) and I just want see first the errors but I also need the errors in the large file because I see only there the environment that caused the error.
Again, thank you. zsolt >-----Original Message----- >From: Curt Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 4:12 PM >To: Logging General >Cc: Zsolt >Subject: Re: How to define a second logger only for errors? > > >On Oct 9, 2005, at 2:11 AM, Zsolt wrote: > > >> >> Hi, >> >> I use 1.2.12. I would like to define two loggers. The first one should >> contain everything, the second only the errors. How can I do that? >> >> Zsolt >> >> >> > > >log4j-user would be the appropriate mailing list for that. >[email protected] is for discussion on matters that affect >more than one of the Logging Services projects. If you have follow >up, please repost to that mailing list and not >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I don't have time to discuss the scenario at the moment, but I might >start you down the right path and rereading the Short Intro or other >documentation might make more sense. > >It would be uncommon and undesirable to have separate loggers for >different severities (info, warn, debug, etc). Loggers typically >correspond to implementation classes (for example, >com.example.gui.SomeWidget) or some particular topic (database, >security). Think of a logger as a topic of conversation and the >level as the tone of voice of speaker. > >It would be common to have multiple appenders attached to the same >logger but differing in the threshold of messages they process. A >way to think of it would be if court reporter and a newspaper writer >were listening to the same testimony in a court of law. The court >reporter would attempt to write down everything that was said, the >newspaper writer would only take notes when he thought the testimony >was interesting and would discard most of the things he heard. > >In your situation, I would suggest attaching two appenders (like a >listener to a conversation) to the root logger and setting the >threshold of one of the appenders to ERROR. > >
