Here is an old discussion about this, maybe we should try to follow up on that:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/logging-log4j-user/201602.mbox/%3CD35E0663-D78B-4DAF-A26A-F5A27E8A14FC%40dslextreme.com%3E On Aug 13, 2016 2:37 PM, "Mikael Ståldal" <mikael.stal...@magine.com> wrote: > It seems like they want some way to parameterize parts of the > configuration with system properties: > > “With Log4J 1, we were able to parameterize which appender to attach to > the root logger by substituting the zookeeper.root.logger property with > something like INFO, CONSOLE or INFO, ROLLINGFILE. It appears this is not > as easily controlled in Log4J 2, where the configuration is more structured > and switching appenders requires more changes in the configuration file.” > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2342? > focusedCommentId=15081785&page=com.atlassian.jira. > plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15081785 > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/zookeeper/trunk/conf/log4j.properties > > Do we have any way to achieve something similar in Log4j 2? > > On Aug 12, 2016 6:52 PM, "Mikael Ståldal" <mikael.stal...@magine.com> > wrote: > >> There seem to be quite some frustration in some other Apache projects >> about migrating from Log4j 1. Especially around configration. Some seem to >> consider dropping Log4j completely instead of going for Log4j 2. >> >> I have taken on Spark, Hadoop and Zookeeper; see links to their Jira >> issues from LOG4J2-1473. I could need some help. >> >
