hi all,

so far log4j worked really great for me. thanks for everything. but now i am facing a (probably) minor problem that i couldn't fix for some time.

i would like to have a general log file for all my classes in my application. under special circumstances i would like to send some log messages to two log files (one only containing the special messages). i set up log4j like this

# ********************************************* # ** Logger configuration ** # ********************************************* # Set root logger level to DEBUG and its only appender to A1. log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout, logfile log4j.TaskLogger=INFO, stdout, logfile log4j.FailureLogger=INFO, stdout,failurefile

# stdout is set to be a ConsoleAppender. log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender

# stdout uses PatternLayout. log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5r (%d) [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n

#logfile log4j.appender.logfile=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender log4j.appender.logfile.Append=false log4j.appender.logfile.File=migration.log log4j.appender.logfile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.logfile.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5r (%d) [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n

#failurefile log4j.appender.failurefile=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender log4j.appender.failurefile.Append=false log4j.appender.failurefile.File=failure.log log4j.appender.failurefile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.failurefile.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5r (%d) [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n

in java i setup the loggers like this:

<snip> Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("log4j.TaskLogger"); Logger migFailedLogger = Logger.getLogger("log4j.FailureLogger"); PropertyConfigurator.configure(props); </snip>

when i send an event to the second (migFailedLogger) i only get entries in the appenders "stdout" and in "logfile" but not in the "failurefile" appender. anybody knows what's going wrong here?

thanks in advance, markus