Re: [log4perl-devel] Log levels don't work with categories

[Mike S. <m...@pe...>]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Tod Harter wrote:

> There are at least 3 different documented ways to define a logging category
>
> 1) log4perl.categoryname = ...
> 2) log4perl.category.categoryname = ...
> 3) log4perl.logger.categoryname = ...

"logger" and "category" are indeed synonyms and can be used interchangeably.
But I'd be surprised if 1) worked.

> and as well at least 2 ways of defining the root logger (maybe others
> work as well....).
>
> 1) log4perl.rootLogger = ....
> 2) log4perl.logger = ...

Correct. And even log4perl.category will work. That's TMTOWTDI.

> Method 1 of defining a category does not work, at least not on my system!
> Method 2 does work
> Method 3 I haven't tested

Can you point out where 1) is endorsed in the docs?

> And as for the root logger, method 1 works and method 2 may work but
> doesn't seem to work in all cases, though I didn't explore that enough
> to be sure
> of exactly what was going on.

If you find cases which don't work, I'd be very interested to hear about
them.

> Anyway, thanks for the help, now all I have to conquer is 'additivity'
> (which it seems to me for most simple applications the default aught to
> be the opposite, but whatever
> thats just my personal preference).

That's a topic which is discussed controversly in L4j land as well. It's just
a default setting though, and it can be adjusted to your preferences easily.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
m...@pe...