Hi,

   I am using log4j as a logging tool. Can any one help me hoe to use categories configured via log4j.properties. Using catageroies is quite understandable from xml file but not sure how to do that from log4j.properties.

  I want to log specific logging to a file(appender). I am refering to this appender from category. Please see below


log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG,A2,A3,A1,A4,A5

log4j.appender.A5=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.A5.File=/usr/jakarta/tomcat-5.5.9/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/logs/Performance.log
log4j.appender.A5.MaxFileSize=500KB
log4j.appender.A5.FilteredLevel=INFO,WARN,ERROR,FATAL
log4j.appender.A5.MaxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.A5.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A5.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p %x%n LoggingClass[%c]%n LogMessage[%m]%n

og4j.category.cat2=au.com.medibank.util.logging.LogScopeManager
log4j.category.cat2.appender-ref.ref=A5


  The problem I am having is still the appender log file is taking all the logs irrespective of the class mentioned in category.

   Ypur help will be greatly appreciated.

Try to remove A5 from the log4j.rootCategory entry.