logging to several files, what am i doing wrong?

Question

i'm very new to the log4net, and i am trying to create several files and log to them accordingly with my method calls, and . here is my code

 private static readonly ILog firstlog = LogManager.GetLogger("Data"); private static readonly ILog secondlog = LogManager.GetLogger("General");

and then i log like this:

firstlog.Info("some message"); secondlog.Info("some message");

and here is my configuration file

<appender name="General" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
  <file type="log4net.Util.PatternString" value="C:\logs\myfile1.log"/>
  <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/>
  <appendToFile value="true"/>
  <rollingStyle value="Size"/>
  <maxSizeRollBackups value="10"/>
  <maximumFileSize value="10MB"/>
  <staticLogFileName value="true"/>
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
    <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %method %-5level %logger – %message%newline"/>
  </layout>
</appender>
<appender name="Data" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
  <file type="log4net.Util.PatternString" value="C:\logs\myfile2.log"/>
  <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/>
  <appendToFile value="true"/>
  <rollingStyle value="Size"/>
  <maxSizeRollBackups value="10"/>
  <maximumFileSize value="10MB"/>
  <staticLogFileName value="true"/>
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
    <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %method %-5level %logger – %message%newline"/>
  </layout>
</appender>
<logger name="general">
  <appender-ref ref="General"/>
</logger>
<logger name="data">
  <appender-ref ref="Data"/>
</logger>
<root>
  <appender-ref ref="Data"/>
</root>

And they are all logged in one file and the other 2 files are empty. why is this? What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try removing the line

 <appender-ref ref="Data"/>

from the node...