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Log4j - log in different files, same jar , different Main classes

 
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I have a project with the 2 java classes having main method.
These 2 classes are to be executed for 2 different purposes on the same machine at same time in different java process.
These process share the same log4j.properties file as :

[code]
log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG,FILE, FILE2

log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.FILE.MaxFileSize=5MB
log4j.appender.FILE.MaxBackupIndex=50
log4j.appender.FILE.File=C:/Logs/Log1.log
log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd MMM yyyy HH.mm.ss.SSS} : %c : %m %n

log4j.appender.FILE2=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.FILE2.MaxFileSize=5MB
log4j.appender.FILE2.MaxBackupIndex=50
log4j.appender.FILE2.File=C:/Logs/Log2.log
log4j.appender.FILE2.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.FILE2.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd MMM yyyy HH.mm.ss.SSS} : %c : %m %n
[/code/

However , when I executed one java class, it is logging to both the log files as Log1 & Log2.
How should I configure this in java code, so that 1st java class/process will log to Log1.log and 2nd to Log2.log?
 
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I do have similar requirement. Please help me out.
 
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Even I have requirement & same prob..
anyone plzz help
 
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I did something like this

log4j.AppLogger=ALL, appfile
log4j.DaoLogger=ALL, daofile

log4j.appender.appfile=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.appfile.maxFileSize=100KB
log4j.appender.appfile.maxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.appfile.File=app.log
log4j.appender.appfile.threshold=info
log4j.appender.appfile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.appfile.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

log4j.appender.daofile=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.daofile.maxFileSize=100KB
log4j.appender.daofile.maxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.daofile.File=dao.log
log4j.appender.daofile.threshold=info
log4j.appender.daofile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.daofile.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

And in my DAo class I declared as
private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger("log4j.DaoLogger");

And in my appclass I declared
private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger("log4j.AppLogger");

But i get following error:

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (log4j.AppLogger).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

Am I missing something?
 
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Can you please start a new thread, we try not to wake the zombies around here
 
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