Log4net doesn't process the file attribute. I'm not sure how you're using it. These two nodes are processed identically during configuration:

<param name="Hello" value="World" />
<Hello value="World "/>

From: Eric Chamberlain <Eric.Chamberlain@stratagen.com>
To: Log4NET User <log4net-user@logging.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:56:34 PM
Subject: RE: Mystery concerning configuration SOLVED.

I have discovered the source of the problem. We had split out the <log4net> configuration from the web.config but with a redirection left inside the web.config of the form:

The file at the end was of the correct syntax and could be used by log4net but only to the extent that we used the <param...> elements.

I have modified the program to initialized log4net directly from the split-out file and it works with full syntactical support.

Go figure, eh?

== Eric ==

From: Eric Chamberlain <Eric.Chamberlain@stratagen.com>
To: log4net-user@logging.apache.org
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:41:51 PM
Subject: Mystery concerning configuration

Greetings all,

I have an appender which works fine if specified with generic XML but not when specified with conventional log4net terms in the configuration.

Examples should help:

The following works:

<appender name="LogServiceAppender"

type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">

<param name="File"

value="myfile.log" />

<param name="AppendToFile"

value="true" />

<param name="MaxSizeRollBackups"

value="10"/>

<param name="MaximumFileSize"

value="1MB"/>

<param name="RollingStyle"

value="Size"/>

<param name="StaticLogFileName"

value="true"/>

<param name="ConversionPattern"

value="%d{yyyy MMM dd HH:mm:ss} [%t] %-5p - %m%n" />

</layout>

</appender>

But the following does *not* work. It fails to initialize (I turned on the log4net debugging to see it).

<appender name="LogServiceAppender"

type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">

</layout>

</appender>

It appears that log4net initialization does not recognized its own XML schema. How is that possible?

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Eric Chamberlain