I am not a Java guy, just a humble integrator trying to get a couple of canned java applications to run together in harmony.

I have two apps that say my log4j.properties file should be in common/classes and that my rootlogger be:

log4j.rootLogger=INFO, R

For one of these to sets of properties, can I change "R" to some other value, or is this explicit because the app that's logging will be looking for "R"?

Here's the whole bit:

# Default log4j.properties for SASH Server
#
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, R
log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender