James is probably wondering whether your code is running in a web container, such as Tomcat. In that case, LogWeb might be able to help....

http://www.codeczar.com/products/logweb/

It works great for me!

Jake

At 11:38 PM 10/10/2006, you wrote:
>
>I'm don't quite understand the question.  it's a java application.
>
>
>James Stauffer wrote:
>>
>> In what kind of environment are you running?
>>
>> On 10/10/06, vincentw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi I'm new to using log4j and would like to know if I can change the
>>> configuration of log4j while it is already running.  I have passed my
>>> log4j.xml to the DOMConfigurator and then I would like to change some
>>> settings.
>>>
>>> Here is my log4j.xml file
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>> <!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
>>>
>>> <log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/";
>>> debug="false">
>>>
>>>   <!-- ==========Appenders========== -->
>>>   <!-- Define asyncAppender -->
>>>   <appender name="ASYNC" class="org.apache.log4j.AsyncAppender">
>>>         <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
>>>         <appender-ref ref="R"/>
>>>   </appender>
>>>   <!-- Define STDOUT to a console -->
>>>   <appender name="STDOUT" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
>>>     <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
>>>       <param name="ConversionPattern"
>>>           value="%d{ISO8601} %-17X{ipAddress} [%t] [%p] - %m%n"/>
>>>     </layout>
>>>   </appender>
>>>   <!-- Define R; Rolling file logger -->
>>>   <appender name="R" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
>>>       <param name="File" value="logs/adminlog.txt"/>
>>>       <param name="MaxFileSize" value="100KB"/>
>>>       <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="1"/>
>>>       <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
>>>         <param name="ConversionPattern"
>>>             value="%d{ISO8601} %-17X{ipAddress} [%t] [%p] - %m%n"/>
>>>       </layout>
>>>   </appender>
>>>
>>>         <logger name="sql">
>>>                 <level value="off"/>
>>>         </logger>
>>>
>>>   <!-- ==========Setup the Root category========== -->
>>>   <!-- rules for logging DEBUG<INFO<WARN<ERROR<FATAL. -->
>>>   <root>
>>>         <priority value = "error"/>
>>>     <appender-ref ref="ASYNC"/>
>>>   </root>
>>> </log4j:configuration>
>>>
>>>
>>> Now based on a user config file, I would like to change some of the
>>> config
>>> such as the MaxFileSize of the rolling file appender or the number of
>>> backup
>>> logs it keeps.  I would also like to change the logging level of root or
>>> sql.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to to this?  If so, how do I go about doing this?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
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>>
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