# Setting the category factory to MyCategoryFactory solves the
# ClassCastException problem encountered with the "mycat.bad"
# configuration file.

log4j.categoryFactory=org.apache.log4j.examples.MyCategoryFactory


# The usual stuff. Note that A1 is configured in root not in "some.cat"

log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, A1
log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender

log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%5p [%t] %c - %m%n


# Set the priority of "some.cat" to TRACE (defined in
# org.apache.log4j.xml.examples.XPriority). Since we specified
# MyCategoryFactory as the category factory, the following line willl
# also have the side effect of instanciating a MyCategory object
# having the name "some.cat".

log4j.category.some.cat=TRACE#org.apache.log4j.xml.examples.XPriority