According to the javadoc: anonymous wrote : The facilityName parameter must be one of the | strings KERN, USER, MAIL, DAEMON, AUTH, SYSLOG, LPR, NEWS, UUCP, | CRON, AUTHPRIV, FTP, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, | LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7. Case is unimportant. And it does look like the setFacility() code checks for the name. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4180356#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...