Greetings honorable Monks,

Since the documentation for log4perl sucks massively, I am coming here for advice. Here are my problems:
  1. Depending on the tutorial used one can see log4perl.logger or log4perl.root or log4perl.rootLogger as the name of the top hierarchy logger. This is very confusing - are they aliases to the same thing? Or are they tied in some sort of hierarchy? What is the significance of the text after the dot? (obviously not a category name - there is category.x for that)

  2. How can one do the following (non-working example):
    log4perl.logger = INFO, Screen
log4perl.logger = DEBUG, DBGFile
...

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    with the obvious intention to log to several places, filtering based only on log level

  3. Are category.x and logger.x completely different subsystems, or do they actually have some inheritance/relationship between them?
Any references to reading material are appreciated - all I could google were quick-start tutorials without much in-depth architecture explanation. I tried to read the source as well, but gave up at the init() stage.

Thanks!

In reply to Log4Perl configuration problems by ribasushi

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