I have a Log4perl configuration file that looks like... 
log4perl.rootLogger=DEBUG, Screen, FileRotate 
log4perl.appender.Screen=Log::Log4perl::Appender::Screen
log4perl.appender.Screen.stderr=0
log4perl.appender.Screen.layout=Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.Screen.layout.ConversionPattern = %d %-1.1p %P %H %m
+%n
log4perl.appender.FileRotate=Log::Dispatch::FileRotate
log4perl.appender.FileRotate.filename=$logFileDir/$logFileName
log4perl.appender.FileRotate.mode=append
log4perl.appender.FileRotate.autoflush=1
log4perl.appender.FileRotate.DatePattern=yyyy-MM-dd-HH
log4perl.appender.FileRotate.layout=Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayo
+ut
log4perl.appender.FileRotate.layout.ConversionPattern = %d %-1.1p %P %
+H %m%n

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I know that I can have multiple configuration files and load different ones based on my application startup parameters. But I'd rather take a different approach.
Is it possible to programmatically turn off an appender?
For example, I would like to be able to turn off the Screen appender (and have only the FileRotate appender active) if the application is being started as a deamon.
Is this possible? I've been reading through the POD but can find nothing that might give me this capability.

Here is a snippet of code I would like to implement... 
Log::Log4perl::init(\$log_conf);
my $log = Log::Log4perl->get_logger;
if ($opt{d}) { # if starting as a daemon...   
   # turn off the Screen appender
   # ??

   # change the log level
   use Log::Log4perl::Level;
   $log->level($INFO);    
}

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In reply to How to turn off a Log4perl appender? by mifflin

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