Hey Joel,
It's a limitation with the Windows NT Event Log in general. Those messages
are categorized at compile time with the Windows message compiler. You can
add additional message categories in the NTEventLogAppender.dll, but you
can't (AFAIK) add them at runtime.
-Chris
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From: "Wiegman, Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 6:09 AM
Subject: NTEventLogAppender
> Community,
>
> I'm using log4j v1.1.1 on Windows 2000 (NTEventLogAppender) and I'm having
> difficulty getting the category of the events I log to show up. I can get
> the category name to display just fine in the "description" field, so
log4j
> is registering the category correctly, but I've been having no luck
getting
> it to display correctly in the "category" field (which I assume log4j
should
> take care of automatically). I'm going to try v1.1.3, but does anyone
know
> if this is a bug or is it just something wrong with my configuration? I
> checked the bug database and found nothing. This one's got me baffled...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joel Wiegman
>
>
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