Error while shutdown a category

[Amarnath]

hi,   when i try to execute the following code, i'm getting the error like this. I think basically all the log statements should get down, The Error is :       D:\>java CategoryTest frome DEBUG from INFO from WARN log4j:ERROR No appenders could be found for category (CategoryTest). log4j:ERROR Please initialize the log4j system properly.    And thanks in advance for ur replys re this. Cheers, Amar   Source Code : public class CategoryTest {  public static void main(String args[])  {   org.apache.log4j.Category cat = org.apache.log4j.Category.getInstance(CategoryTest.class.getName());    cat.setPriority(org.apache.log4j.Priority.DEBUG);      //org.apache.log4j.BasicConfigurator.configure();   cat.addAppender(new org.apache.log4j.FileAppender(new org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout(),System.out));     cat.debug("from DEBUG");   cat.info("from INFO");   cat.warn("from WARN");     cat.shutdown();     cat.fatal("from FATAL");  } }  _____________________________________ Amarnath P " try agian and again till you get SUCCEEDED"