[log4perl-devel] Re: AW: Taken from http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/11/log4perl.html ?pag e=3

[Mike S. <msc...@ao...>]

Schmidtchen, Jens wrote on 10/13/2003, 12:19 PM:

 > could you please let me know, if the following can be achieved at all?
 > assume several (given) classes each of which with their own logger.

Ok, that's pretty common.

 > these
 > loggers should catch ERRORS only. but in addition all DEBUG messages
 > should
 > be caught too and be recorded into another destination.

To split output by level, use a custom filter, here's the FAQ:

 
http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/releases/Log-Log4perl/docs/html/Log/Log4perl/FAQ.html#i_want_to_log_error_and_warn_messages_to_different_files!_how_can_i_do_that

You will need to specify the logger's level equal to the lowest priority 
of messages, DEBUG in your case, though.

 > in general: the
 > level of the uppermost logger is less restrictive than the levels of the
 > other ones. IMHO the problem is that the uppermost logger can't
 > receive any
 > DEBUG message from its descendant since they suppress any non-ERROR
 > message.

This should be taken care of by the configuration outlined above, right?

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