Maarten,
I ALMOST went down this path yesterday. Was thinking along those lines too
but figured there might be some more elegant way to do it...
Maarten Bosteels wrote:
>
> Or, you can use placeholders in your config file.
>
> log4j.appender.RollingFile.File = /var/log/${application}.log
>
> and each application can then use a different value for the system
> property:
>
> app1: System.setPropert("application", "app1") or java
> -Dapplication=app1
> ...
> app2: System.setPropert("application", "app2")
>
> Maarten
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:08 PM, orko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> You can create multiple appenders in the same configuration file. Suppose
>> you want 4 log files, and all DailyRollingFileAppender, all you need to
>> is
>> create 4 appenders (it is exactly same as creating one appender), then
>> point
>> them to diff files based on log levels. You can control applications
>> through
>> loggers. Just add your appender name in the property 'appender-ref
>> ref="YourAppender"' of a particular logger (may be based on your
>> applications). You will get very good resources in log4j site under
>> Publications link about how to create appenders and loggers.
>> Good luck!
>> -OrkO
>>
>>
>>
>> sparky2708 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a system developed in java that has multiple services (i.e.
>> java
>> Applications). I would like to be able to log EACH application to ITS OWN
>> log file. I have about 50-80 applications so having a log4j.properties
>> for
>> each one is not a feasible solution. I would like to use ONE
>> log4j.properties file for the entire suite of application and use the
>> "DailyRollingFileAppender" preferably to roll each of the log files on a
>> nightly basis so each of the logs doesn't get too big.
>> I didn't think this would be very complicated when I started thinking
>> about this but am now stuck trying to figure out how to accomplish this
>> with
>> log4j. Any ideas?
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