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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/pradeepsreekumar">Pradeep Sreekumar</a> in <i>JBoss Web Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/565715#565715">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi All,</p><p>I am having an issue with switching the log level dynamically.I tried using log4j xml and following is the log4j configuration.</p><p>&lt;appender name="FILE" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender"&gt;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;param name="File" value="${jboss.server.log.dir}/shcapiTest.log"/&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <strong>&lt;param name="Threshold" value="INFO"/&gt;</strong><br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;param name="Append" value="false"/&gt;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;!-- The default pattern: Date Priority [Category] Message\n --&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;param name="ConversionPattern" value="%c [%d] %5p %X{token} %C.%M - %m%n"/&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/layout&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160; &lt;/appender&gt;</p><p>&lt;category name="com.test.api" additivity="false"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;appender-ref ref="FILE"/&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/category&gt;</p><p>&lt;root&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;appender-ref ref="FILE"/&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160; &lt;/root&gt;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Also <strong>RefreshPeriod </strong>is configured in jboss-service.xml.</p><p>But changing the threshold level from INFO to DEBUG is not printing my DEBUG logs</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>This is how i access the logger</p><p>Logger<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; .getLogger("com.test.api");</p><p>logger.debug("Testing debug");</p><p>Any issue with this configuration.?</p></div>

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