Hi guys

I have finally started to use jboss7 (previously I used jboss4 and jboss5) and now I don't know how to use an external file for log4j configuration. In the specific I have a simple ejb project with a starter class that has the following code:

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@Startup

@Singleton

public class Starter {

          public static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(Starter.class);

          @PostConstruct

          void init() {

                    System.out.println("Starting MSH backend");

                    System.out.println("Configuring properties");

                    try {

                              PropertiesManager.loadProperties();

                              System.out.println("Properties loaded, configuring loggers");

                              DOMConfigurator.configureAndWatch("/opt/ejb/ejbLog4j.xml"));

                              System.out.println("Loggers configured");

                              LOGGER.info("MSH EJB STARTED");

                    }

                    catch(IOException e) {

                              System.out.println("ERROR! Props file not found!");

                    }

                    catch(PropertyNotFoundException e) {

                              System.out.println("ERROR! Logger filename property not found");

                    }

          }

}

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Simply I use DomConfigurator to read an external log4j configuration file and to configure the logger properly. This is the content of the xml file:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/xml/doc-files/log4j.dtd">

<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">

    <appender name="mshEjb" class="org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender">

        <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>

        <param name="Append" value="true"/>

        <param name="File" value="/var/opt/msh/msh_ejb.log"/>

        <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">

            <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%C{1}] - %m%n"/>

        </layout>

    </appender>

    <category name="com.stonesoft.msh.ejb" additivity="false">

        <priority value="DEBUG"/>

        <appender-ref ref="mshEjb"/>

    </category>

</log4j:configuration>

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The problem is that the application creates the log file correctly but nothing is written in it. In the server.log instead I can find both the standard print and the log print. I've tried all the ways I found in internet without luck. Any idea?

Thanks