### LOGGER CONFIGURATION ###

### ROOT LOGGER SETTINGS (GLOBAL SETINGS) ###
#                level  appenders to activate
log4j.rootLogger=debug, stdout, log, err


### CONFIGRE THE CONSOLE OUTPUT APPENDER ####
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
# you can set each appender to a different level, 'WARN' would 
# only log to console if there is an error
log4j.appender.stdout.Threshold=WARN
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} |%5p| %F:%L] %m%n
#log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS}] [%5p] [%t] [%F:%L] %m%n

### STANDARD LOG APPENDER ###
# Could just do this and not the error log file appender. I like both because
# you can look at the error log to quickly identify issues and the output
# log to see the errors but also details before/after the error. NOTE the absence
# of a threshold parameter. This means this will output all logging messages
# that are equal to or higher than the root loger coniguraiton at the top.
log4j.appender.log=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.log.File=output.log
log4j.appender.log.MaxFileSize=20240KB
log4j.appender.log.MaxBackupIndex=100
log4j.appender.log.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.log.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS}] [%5p] [%t] [%F:%L] %m%n

### THIS WOULD LOG ONLY WARNINGS AND ERRORS TO error.log ###
# NOTE If the root loger was set to ERROR, you would only get errors. This is
#      because while this appender "logs" everything it gets *above* WARN, the
#      root loger set to ERROR would only *send* ERRRORs to this appender.
log4j.appender.err=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.err.File=error.log
log4j.appender.err.MaxFileSize=20240KB
log4j.appender.err.MaxBackupIndex=100
log4j.appender.err.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.err.Threshold=WARN
log4j.appender.err.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS}] [%5p] [%t] [%F:%L] %m%n