Log4j multiple loggers

Question

I was curious if anyone has been able to get multiple log4j loggers to work with weblogic? I have configured my domains
to use log4j for logging and it appears to be functioning correctly. I am trying to use multiple loggers to send send system logs to the localhost and auditing log events to a remote host (using log4j syslogappender). A subset of my log4j.properties is shown below
system.log.level=DEBUG
log.dir=Logs
max.filesize=10MB
log4j.rootLogger=${system.log.level}, systemLogFile, stdout
log4j.logger.audit=INFO, syslog
log4j.additivity.audit=false
log4j.appender.syslog=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender
log4j.appender.syslog.SyslogHost=RemoteAuditRepositoryHost
log4j.appender.syslog.layout=org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout
log4j.appender.syslog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{${datestamp}} [%t] %-5p %c : %m%n
log4j.appender.syslog.Facility=local2
If I use this configuration the syslogd on my remote host receives nothing. I can get it too work if I move the syslog appender
into the root logger but then it receives a lot of other logging Id rather not receive. I am using log4j 1.2.16 and Weblogic 10.3.

Answer 1

Here's my test version that works correctly:class SubClass {
  private Logger log;
  public SubClass(String name) {
    // Create the appender
    RollingFileAppender appender = new RollingFileAppender();
    appender.setLayout(new PatternLayout("%d{DATE} %-5p [" + name
                    + "] - %m%n"));
    appender.setFile("C:/temp/" + name + ".txt");
    appender.activateOptions();
    // Create logger
    log = Logger.getLogger("SubClass." + name);
    log.addAppender(appender);
  public void writeToLog(String txt) {
    log.info(txt);
}I don't have this "policy" business in my version of Log4J so I simplified your code a bit. My version produces two different log files with one line in each file.