declare a separate logger with your SPECIAL_APPENDER attached and additivity flag false. You are not forced to use the classname as logger name. You can choose any string (i.e. "SPECIAL_LOGGER"). Heri
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bryce Nesbitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:02 AM > To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org > Subject: [SPAM (Bayesain Analysis)] - Sending "special" messages to a > different appender - Bayesian Filter detected spam > > > I wish to write a separate log of certain special and important > messages. In perl, this might go: > > print NORMALLOG "foo"; > print NORMALLOG "fum" > print SPECIALLOG "special message"; > > Can this be done with log4j? This would be something looking > roughly like: > > logger.info("fum"); > logger.debug("foo"); > logger.debug("loo"); > logger.info(SPECIAL_APPENDER,"foo"); > > I can't divide these messages based on the class that's > printing them. > I somehow need to create a new and totally separate log file. Is this > possible? > > -Bryce > > > PS1: Why? This is a poorman's mirroring system. The idea > is to dump a > certain special checkpoint messages to a remote syslog server > for archiving. > > PS1: the log4j.properties file is: > > log4j.appender.A1 = org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender > log4j.appender.A1.file = /tmp/fooble.log > log4j.appender.A1.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.A1.layout.conversionPattern = %d %-5p %m - %c{2}%n > log4j.appender.A1.append = false > > log4j.appender.SPECIAL_APPENDER=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender > log4j.appender.SPECIAL_APPENDER.SPECIAL_APPENDERHost=209.99.99.31 > log4j.appender.SPECIAL_APPENDER.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.SPECIAL_APPENDER.layout.ConversionPattern=%p: %c - %m > log4j.appender.SPECIAL_APPENDER.Facility=SPECIAL_APPENDER > > log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, A1 > log4j.category.org.foo.fum = SPECIAL_APPENDER > > This works fine, except org.foo.fum needs to continue to send regular > output to A1, without cluttering SPECIAL_APPENDER. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
