Good Morning,

In my log4j.properties file, I am writing to three Appenders: console, file, and
syslog. I have no trouble writing to the console and file. However, I can not make the
SyslogAppender write to the choosen facility. Below is the content of my properties file.

# Set root category priority to INFO and its only appender to CONSOLE. #log4j.rootCategory=INFO, CONSOLE log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, CONSOLE, LOGFILE, SYSLOGFILE

# CONSOLE is set to be a ConsoleAppender using a PatternLayout. log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.CONSOLE.Threshold=INFO log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS}
%-5p %x - %m%n

# LOGFILE is set to be a File appender using a PatternLayout. log4j.appender.LOGFILE=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender log4j.appender.LOGFILE.File=/New.log log4j.appender.LOGFILE.Append=true log4j.appender.LOGFILE.Threshold=INFO log4j.appender.LOGFILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.LOGFILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS}
%-5p %x - %m%n

# SYSLOG is set to be a Syslog appender using a Pattern Layout log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender #log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE.facility=local7 #log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE.syslogName=MyLog #log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE.portNumber=-1 #log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS}
%-5p %x - %m%n log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE.SyslogHost=localhost log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE.Threshold=DEBUG log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE.Facility=USER log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.SYSLOGFILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %p %c - %m %n

As you can see, I using the USER facility. I can set up the facility to point to
a particular file, but I have no luck writing to that file.

Any thoughts or comments? Are there any glaring bad mistakes I made when seting
up the SyslogAppender? Anything left out?

Many Thanks,

Hut