title: How do I disable log4net status messages to the console?
body: <p>I am using log4net in my .NET 3.5 console application and would like the log messages I generate to be seen in both the console standard out and the RollingFileAppender. The file output is working like a charm, but I am seeing a stream of status messages flowing to the console standard out when I execute. I would like to skip all the status information and only see the same messages I am programmatically generating to the log file.</p>
  
  <p>Here is an example of what I see after I run my app:</p>
  
  <pre><code>log4net: XmlHierarchyConfigurator: Configuration update mode [Merge].
  log4net: XmlHierarchyConfigurator: Logger [root] Level string is [DEBUG].
  log4net: XmlHierarchyConfigurator: Logger [root] level set to [name="DEBUG",value=30000].
  log4net: XmlHierarchyConfigurator: Loading Appender [Console] type: [log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender]
  log4net: PatternParser: Converter [message] Option [] Format [min=-1,max=2147483647,leftAlign=False]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and it keeps on going until it describes the whole instantiation of the logger object.</p>
  
  <p>How do I turn this off? Can I? I've tried all sorts of config file settings, but nothing makes these go away! Grrr...</p>