Alan Macdonald - 2003-12-05

Hi all,

I have a java SocketServer running listening for LoggingEvents.  I want log4perl to be able to log to this server.  When it attempts to log I get the folowing error message:

(SocketNode.java:85) ERROR org.apache.log4j.n
et.SocketNode - Unexpected exception. Closing conneciton.
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.log4j.net.SocketNode.run(SocketNode.java:67)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

Does anyone know how to get log4perl to send the data in the right format?  The server works fine with log4java but genrates the above message only for log4perl.  I think it's because the SocketServer expects a LoggingEvent but does not get one from log4perl.

I am using Log::Log4perl::Appender::Socket in my Perl config file.

Thanks in advance

Alan