can some one say what is wrong with my log4j.properties?

[raminaa niilian]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post.
I have a log4j.properties which does not function correctly.
i want all log messages to go to a file like: messages.log but it append them to console instead of FileAppender.

here is the log4j properties file:

# Direct log messages to stdout
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.File=messages.log
log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
 
# Root logger option
log4j.rootLogger=WARN, stdout
 
#Hibernate logging options (INFO only shows startup messages)
log4j.logger.org.hibernate=INFO
 
# Log JDBC bind parameter runtime arguments
log4j.logger.org.hibernate.type=DEBUG
 

thanks

[Ulf Dittmer]

Try removing the line

log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out

[Carol Enderlin]

Other than getting a warning, your log4j.properties file worked for me. It wrote to messages.log in the directory I was running the java command from. I am using version 1.2.14.

log4j:WARN No such property [target] in org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.

Is it really using the properties file you think it is?

Try adding log4j.debug=true to the properties file or a system property to the java call (it will put out some internal debug info to the console including how it is getting configured):

-Dlog4j.debug

[edited to add version number]
[ January 08, 2007: Message edited by: Carol Enderlin ]

[raminaa niilian]

Thank you for reply.
It is fixed now, but another problem that i faces is like this:
The logger log hibernate messages but not my own message.
here is the code portion that i used to log some messges to this log file.
but my own messages are not in the log file and nor in the console

here is my code portion:

   Logger logger = Logger.getRootLogger();
        logger.info("This is ramina printed log");
        logger.info("parent ID:"+parent.getId());

why it does not add my own messages to log file?

thanks

[Carol Enderlin]

your root logger (so rootlogger and everything else that isn't specified) is set to WARN level so debug and info won't be included
[ January 08, 2007: Message edited by: Carol Enderlin ]