Hey Monks,
This is my first attempt in using log4perl and I seem to missing something very basic. My script performs a series of actions and I wanted to both log activites and send myself an email if anything major fails, like connecting to the database. I am successful at performing both, however I receive both $INFO and $FATAL messages to both my email and my log file, rather than just $FATAL to email and $INFO to my log file. I did not write this script in OO thus I believe the lack of heirarchy is causing my problem. I know I could use Log4perl qw(:easy), but based on my understanding (or lack there of) you can only send everything to STDOUT and STDERR. Thanks for any help. Here is my config file 
log4perl.rootLogger=FATAL, A1, Mailer
log4perl.logger=INFO, log

log4perl.appender.A1=Log::Dispatch::File
log4perl.appender.A1.filename=test.log
log4perl.appender.A1.mode=append
log4perl.appender.A1.layout=PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p> %F{1}:%L %M - %m%
+n
log4perl.appender.Mailer         = Log::Dispatch::Email::MailSendmail
log4perl.appender.Mailer.to      = joeshmoe
log4perl.appender.Mailer.from      = joeshmoe
log4perl.appender.Mailer.subject = Something's broken!
log4perl.appender.Mailer.layout  = SimpleLayout

log4perl.appender.log=Log::Dispatch::File
log4perl.appender.log.filename=/mail.log
log4perl.appender.log.mode=append
log4perl.appender.log.layout=PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.log.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p> %m%n

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Here is a snip of code from my script 
use Log::Log4perl;
Log::Log4perl->init("surv.conf"); #name of my config file
my $log = Log::Log4perl->get_logger();
$log->info("connecting to database");
my $dbh = DBI->connect(ORACLE_DATABASE_NAME, ORACLE_USER, ORACLE_PASSW
+ORD) 
            or die $log->fatal($DBI::errstr);

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In reply to using log4perl by tbone

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