Dear Monks,

I'm obviously missing something here. My log4perl.conf file looks like this :

#
# Loggers
#
log4perl.logger.B2B::Display    =ERROR, B2B_FILE
log4perl.logger.B2B::Bin        =TRACE, BIN_FILE, BIN_STDERR, BIN_STDO
+UT

#
# Appenders
#
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE=Log::Dispatch::File
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.filename=/project/myproj/log/cgi/cgi.log
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.autoflush=1
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.syswrite=1
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.utf8=1
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.umask=002
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.group=www-data
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.mode=append
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.min_level=debug
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.layout=PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.B2B_FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=[%P]%d{yyyyMMdd HH
+:mm:ss.SSS}|%M|%L|%m%n

log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE=Log::Dispatch::File
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.filename=/project/myproj/log/bin/bin.log
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.autoflush=1
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.syswrite=1
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.utf8=1
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.umask=002
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.group=myprojgroup
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.mode=append
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.min_level=error
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.layout=PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.BIN_FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=[%P]%d{yyyyMMdd HH
+:mm:ss.SSS}|%M|%L|%m%n

log4perl.appender.BIN_STDERR=Log::Dispatch::Screen
log4perl.appender.BIN_STDERR.stderr=1
log4perl.appender.BIN_STDERR.min_level=error
log4perl.appender.BIN_STDERR.layout=PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.BIN_STDERR.layout.ConversionPattern=[%P]%d{yyyyMMdd 
+HH:mm:ss.SSS}|%M|%L|%m%n

log4perl.appender.BIN_STDOUT=Log::Dispatch::Screen
log4perl.appender.BIN_STDOUT.stderr=0
log4perl.appender.BIN_STDOUT.max_level=warning
log4perl.appender.BIN_STDOUT.layout=PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.BIN_STDOUT.layout.ConversionPattern=[%P]%d{yyyyMMdd 
+HH:mm:ss.SSS}|%M|%L|%m%n
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I have two different class hierarchies - Display::xxx and Bin:xxx. The Display::xxx classes are instantiated by apache (www-data) and the Bin:xxx classes are instantiated by user 'x'.

The www-data and x users do not share a common group.

The problem I have is that when I create a logger for a Bin::xxx class, it tries to create the cgi.log file - even though it is only referenced by the B2B_FILE appender that Bin::xxx classes do not reference.

If user 'x' does have write access to the cgi directory, creating a logger for a Bin::xxx class does create an empty cgi.log file. If user 'x' does *not* have write access, I get a runtime permissions error saying it cannot write to .../cgi/cgi.log - even though I don't want it to.

Do I need to have separate config files for the two different types of classes?

Thanks for your help (and patience).

H.

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