Hi... I posted this Q last week but think it was lost...can anyone please... This is regarding socket appenders in general. I am having an application that logs messages thru a SocketAppender. I am using log4j's ServerSocket app as a listener to receive the messages over the network and log them. My question is that sometimes(only sometimes and not all the time) i lose my messages when at the server end (SocketServer) i get error messages as : 20 [main] ERROR org.apache.log4j.net.SocketNode - Could not open ObjectInputStream to Socket[addr=localhost/127.0.0.1,port=1638,localport=20200] java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: JVM_recv in socket input stream read at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead(Native Method) at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:90) at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:106) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.read(ObjectInputStream.java:1387) at java.io.DataInputStream.readShort(DataInputStream.java:268) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readShort(ObjectInputStream.java:1556) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(ObjectInputStream.java:724) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(ObjectInputStream.java:165) at org.apache.log4j.net.SocketNode.<init>(SocketNode.java:52) at org.apache.log4j.net.SocketServer.main(SocketServer.java, Compiled Code) 40 [Thread-0] ERROR org.apache.log4j.net.SocketNode - Unexpected exception. Closing conneciton. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.log4j.net.SocketNode.run(SocketNode.java, Compiled Code) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479) I tried several times and am not able to get a pattern that generated the error. Is it an error in the network or am i screwing something up? Can anyone help me?? Regards, Ganapathi. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]