Can Log4net have multiple appenders write to the same file?

Question

I\'m using a RollingFileAppender to log some info to a file with a conversionPattern (in the web.config) that looks like this for the header of each log section:

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Answer 1

Yes you can have two log4net appenders that append (write) to the same log file.

You need to place the following line in each of your Appenders:

This will make log4net use a minimal locking model that allows multiple processes to write to the same file.

Here's an example XML that uses two appenders writing to the same log file:

This can be found in the Apache documentation here: Apache Log4Net Docs Just search on this page for 'same file'.

Hope this helps.