[Log4cpp-devel] Re: Patch for RemoteSyslogAppender to log facility

[Bastiaan B. <Bas...@li...>]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 16:24, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Bastiaan Bakker <Bas...@li...> writes:
> 
> > The assumption is that in the RemoteSyslogAppnder one specifies the
> > facility using its defined constant, eg. LOG_NEWS, rather than an
> > explicit numeric value. All the constants are already multiplied by 8.  
> > This is what openlog(3) expects as well. 
> 
> True...
> 
> > > A side note: it appears that the PropertyConfigurator is not properly
> > > reading the facility number for a "SyslogAppender" from the
> > > configuration file.
> > 
> > Hmm, yes, that's a bug. I'll add the multiplication. Ideally the
> > .facility property should accept names as well as values.
> 
> I was having the problem that the getInt() was returning the default
> even if I put a valid number in there..  Although providing a name
> would be usefule.
> 

Can you find out what's going wrong? 
The 'name' variant will not be ready for 0.3.2, but a fix for your
problem will.


> PS_ Thanks for all your work on log4cpp!

Thanks. 

Bastiaan Bakker

> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Bastiaan Bakker
> > LifeLine Networks bv
> 
> -derek
> 
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