title: Write Log4j output to HDFS
body: <p>Has anyone tried to <em>write <strong>log4j</strong> log file</em> directly <em>to</em> <strong>Hadoop Distributed File System</strong> ?</p>
  
  <p>If yes, please reply how to achieve this.
  I think I will have to create an Appender for it.</p>
  
  <p>Is this the way?
  My necessity is to write logs to a file at particular intervals and query that data at a later stage.</p>