RE: Log4net in a windows service

[Radovan Raszka]

Ok, there is also dependency on where log4net is set up.
Examples in my last mail works, if log4net is configured from
Myservice.exe (not from DLL), and config is stored in
Myservice.exe.config (you add app.config to the project, but Visual
studio copies this file to the output folder as
<projectname>.exe.config, what is correct)
If configuration is done from DLL, then logutil.DLL.config probably can
not be used (at least it didn't work for me and I was told that
application file is always searched as <processname>.exe.config), so
save config into Myservice.exe.config or use second example.
Radovan


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        From: Jeegnesh Sheth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
        Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:22 PM
        To: Log4NET User
        Subject: RE: Log4net in a windows service
        
        

        Radovan,

                    This is how my application is set up

         

        LogUtil.dll

        This has some custom logging as well as log4net dll reference
and uses a custom appender to log

         

         

        Myservice.exe has the following dll's that it uses

        -          Logutil.dll

        -          Dosomething.dl

        -          Myservice.exe.app.config

         

        Dosomthing.dll instantiates logutil.dll to write the logs.

         

        I tried putting your xmlconfigurator.configure in logutil.dll
and that did not work

         

        I then tried placing it in dosomething.dll which did not work

         

        Placing it in myservice.exe did not produce anything

         

        Thoughts/ suggestions?

         

        From: Radovan Raszka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
        Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:41 AM
        To: Log4NET User
        Subject: RE: Log4net in a windows service

         

        there are 2 option:

        1/ XmlConfigurator.Configure();

        this configures log4net using app.config file, which must be in
this form:

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

        <configuration>

            <configSections>

                <section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />

            </configSections>

            <appSettings>

        ....

            </appSettings>

            <log4net>

        ....

            </log4net>

        </configuration>

        This is probably best solution as you have only one config file
for both application and log4net.

        2/ configure log4net using extra XML file

        XmlConfigurator.Configure(new System.IO.FileInfo(GetAppPath() +
"log4net.xml"))

        .....

        public string GetAppPath()

        {

        string myPath =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;

        int i = myPath.LastIndexOf('\\');

        return myPath.Remove(i + 1);

        }

        Both solutions works well with service, but when log4net config
is changed, you must restart your service.