Did you make sure to specify ignoreExceptions="false" on the appender to be failed over?
Ralph > On Oct 10, 2013, at 10:21 PM, Sudharma Puranik <sudharma.pura...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Failover Appender dint work for me.. I will send you the details soon... > hardly pressed with work. > > -Sudharma > > >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Ralph Goers <rgo...@apache.org> wrote: >> The FailoverAppender didn't work for you? If not, why? >> >> To get your plugin to be found you either need to add its package to the >> packages attribute of the configuration element or you need to use "plugin >> preloading", which is documented on the Plugins page on the web site, >> >> Ralph >> >>> On Oct 10, 2013, at 1:43 AM, Sudharma Puranik <sudharma.pura...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I created my custom Appender and Manager and added it into the plugins >>> which work properly. But I have a problem like I have to always compile >>> the core and deploy it back which is not a good idea.. Does the log4j2 >>> provide any dropin solution for plugins? Or is it that , do you have any >>> other way of doing it? >>> >>> kindly help >>> >>> -Sudharma >>> >>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> Try the FailoverAppender. See >>>> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.html#FailoverAppender. >>>> >>>> Ralph >>>> >>>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Sudharma Puranik <sudharma.pura...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> > Hello, >>>> > >>>> > I have a special case of logging, that is , whenever I get an Error I >>>> > would want to log to disk. Kind of a Dump log. The approach I have used >>>> > so far are, >>>> > >>>> > 1. extend RollingRandomAccessAppender and RandomAccessManager and create >>>> > my own write method which will only write to a IO Stream and when error >>>> > occurs I flush it using ByteBuffer. But the problem is I am not able to >>>> > get the hook of Exception handling. >>>> > >>>> > 2 Tried to write my own NIO streaming with different thread. But >>>> > handling rollover is not managable. >>>> > >>>> > Could you please suggest me a better approach for this? >>>> > >>>> > -Sudharma >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org >