Bug 37452

Summary: ConsoleAppender is actually a SystemOutAppender or SystemErrAppender
Product: Log4j - Now in Jira Reporter: emergency.shower
Component: AppenderAssignee: log4j-dev <log4j-dev>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: other   
Bug Depends on: 31056    
Bug Blocks:    

Description emergency.shower 2005-11-10 17:40:52 UTC 
Since log4j version 1.2.12 ConsoleAppender always logs to System.out or 
System.err but not to the stream that was given to ConsoleAppender at the 
beginning of it's life cycle (normally stdout or stderr).

To log errors that occur in third party libraries, we redirect all output to 
System.out and System.err to a stream that uses log4j as output. If 
ConsoleAppender is configured as a appender, this will result in stack 
overflows or out-of-memory-errors.

See bug 31056, which was probably erroneously considered as a bug.
Comment 1 Curt Arnold 2005-11-11 00:30:21 UTC 
In quickly forthcoming 1.2.13, ConsoleAppender's original behavior will be
restored as default, but there will be a new attribute "follow" that will allow
a user to cause ConsoleAppender to log to the current value of System.out or
System.err.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37122 ***