[logback-user] Can't set level

Joern Huxhorn jhuxhorn at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 10 22:30:23 CEST 2009


On 10.07.2009, at 18:03, Neale Upstone wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying the examples at http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html 
>  and the level attribute is always ignored.
>
> i.e. the following should ensure that I only get error messages  
> logged:
>
> <configuration>
>
>   <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
>     <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
>       <Pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg 
> %n</Pattern>
>     </layout>
>   </appender>
>
>   <root level="error">
>     <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
>   </root>
> </configuration>
>
> This is quite frustrating, especially as there is no DTD (which  
> would also provide documentation and the ability to edit config  
> files confidently in an XML editor, as is simple with Spring configs).
>
> Can anyone help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neale
>

Try using  <root level="ERROR">, i.e. capital letters.
Just a guess, HTH

Regards,
Joern.
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