Question

This was the log4j file I used for my project till I checked in my project to a SVN repository. This was working fine and I saw log information on Eclipse’s console

log4j.rootLogger=debug, stdout, R

log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout

# Pattern to output the caller's file name and line number.
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d - %p %t %C.%M (%F:%L) %m%n

log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.R.File=x.log

 log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=100KB
 # Keep one backup file
log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=1

log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%d - %p %t %C.%M (%F:%L) %m%n

I checked out my project from repository and disabled logging by making this change in my log4j property file.

#log4j.rootLogger=debug, stdout, R
log4j.rootLogger=OFF

But this change didn’t work as expected, I still got the log information on Eclipse’s console. When I cross checked the same on Terminal, it was fine, I didn’t get log info on Terminal. Any problem with Eclipse? I searched a lot on this issue, didn’t get any solution. Help me in finding out what’s wrong here!!!

Answer 1

There are two possible issues here:

1. the configuration should say (to tell it no appenders, instead of looking for OFF appender):

   log4j.rootLogger=

2. Eclipse is using an old version of the file, likely because you edited the file outside of Eclipse. Just refresh the file (Right click / Refresh) and it should start working as you expect.