And I hope the definition of the Child Category was a typo too? Set the log4j.debug=true and log4j.warn=true and see whether you can find out what appenders are being set for your Child category.
Swami > -----Original Message----- > From: Ashwin Bangalore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: April 26, 2002 2:23 PM > To: 'Log4J Users List' > Subject: RE: Log4j writes to multiple log files (Additivity problems?) > > > > Sorry, there was a mistake in the sample log4j properties > file that I attached. The root category definitions were > messed up - copy-paste problems. > The correct entry should be: > log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, default, SyslogAppender > log4j.additivity.rootCategory=false > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Swami Iyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:57 PM > To: 'Log4J Users List' > Subject: RE: Log4j writes to multiple log files (Additivity problems?) > > > May be you should set the explicit rootCategory to say what > appender it > would use. I am not sure what happens when the rootCategory > is not set. > > > Swami > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ashwin Bangalore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: April 26, 2002 1:40 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > << Snipped >> > > > > > log4j.category.default=DEBUG, default, SyslogAppender > > log4j.category.GParent=DEBUG, GParentAppender, SyslogAppender > > log4j.category.Parent=DEBUG, ParentAppender, SyslogAppender > > log4j.category.Child.DEBUG, ChildAppender, SyslogAppender > > > > log4j.additivity.category.default=false > > log4j.additivity.category.GParentAppender=false > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>