I've been playing around with a simple configuration of a program sending its logging info to a central JVM and it appears that SocketAppender does what I want.
However, if the central JVM is not running, the SocketAppender gives the following msg: log4j:ERROR Could not connect to remote log4j server at [localhost]. We will try again later. java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:295) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:161) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:148) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:425) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:375) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:290) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:146) at org.apache.log4j.net.SocketAppender.connect(SocketAppender.java:195) at org.apache.log4j.net.SocketAppender.<init>(SocketAppender.java:145) at benchmark.WorkloadConfiguration.run(WorkloadConfiguration.java:68) at benchmark.WorkloadManager.main(WorkloadManager.java:186) I tried to install an ErrorHandler so that I could possibly detect this situation and install a backup Appender, but it appears that SocketAppender is ignoring the ErrorHandler I installed. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Mike Norman
