Peter, I corrected the extra tag for the appender and removed the target - but now my output will be the same as server.log. I am wondering, if i remove the "Target" parameter, how different is this going to be from creating the application server log. The console output captures stuff which the server.log does not - in particular JVM related messages and that is the stuff that i want to get into a file which can be rolled over. Thanks Ramdas View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3971646#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...