Log4j and Jboss are acting weird

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This question is reagards to Log4j and JBoss and I thought this is the best place to ask this question.
I am using Jboss 3.2.3. My purpose was to log messages in a seperate file "developer.log" using Log4j. These messages has to be logged in this file only. So in my WAR's folder under WEB-INF/classes I created a file log4j.properties:
log4j.logger.standard=DEBUG, devlog
log4j.appender.devlog=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.devlog.File=C:/logs/developer.log
log4j.appender.devlog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.devlog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%nNow my code :
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger("standard");
log.debug("a debug message");
log.info("a info message");
log.warn("a war message");I test run this code without Jboss and it works perfect. It created a file "developer.log" in the desired location and logs messages in it.
Now i run with JBoss. JBoss does not create "developer.log" file at all. Instead it logs all the messages in server.log
2005-09-30 23:07:35,459 DEBUG [standard] a debug message
Jboss is recognizing that it is standard but after that it is not gving me the desired results. Any input on how to fix this problem?
TIA

Answer 1

You can tell it you don't want to inherit, by adding
this to your "standard" category tag:
<category name="standard" additivity="false">
thanks. it works perfect.
ok i got it working kind of. Jboss already comeswith
a log4j.xml so i put my log4j stuff in this file :You should be able to deploy your own log4j.xml with
your app's resource files and make it use yours when
it is running your app.Ok I took out my stuff from Jboss log4j.xml, create a new xml progtest.log4j.xml like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/" debug="false">
  <appender name="DEVLOG" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
    <param name="File" value="${jboss.server.home.dir}/log/developer.log" />
    <param name="Append" value="true" />
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n" />
    </layout>
  </appender>
  <category name="standard" additivity="false">
    <priority value="INFO"/>
    <appender-ref ref="DEVLOG" />
  </category>
</log4j:configuration>My web application is in a ProgTest.WAR folder. I put the above file "progtest.log4j.xml" under WEB-INF/classes in ProgTest.WAR folder. When i run the app the very first problem again arises that no developer.log file was created; instead the concerned messages were put into server.log and console.
All my classes are in one jar file. I include progtest.log4j.xml in that jar file, redeploy it and test it but still the same problem.
What i am doing wrong here?
Thanks