title: Turning off hibernate logging console output
body: <p>I'm using hibernate 3 and want to stop it from dumping all the startup messages to the console. I tried commenting out the stdout lines in log4j.properties but no luck. I've pasted my log file below. Also I'm using eclipse with the standard project structure and have a copy of log4j.properties in both the root of the project folder and the bin folder.</p>
  
  <pre>### direct log messages to stdout ###
  #log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
  #log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
  #log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
  #log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
  
  ### direct messages to file hibernate.log ###
  log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
  log4j.appender.file.File=hibernate.log
  log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
  log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
  
  ### set log levels - for more verbose logging change 'info' to 'debug' ###
  
  log4j.rootLogger=warn, stdout
  
  #log4j.logger.org.hibernate=info
  log4j.logger.org.hibernate=debug
  
  ### log HQL query parser activity
  #log4j.logger.org.hibernate.hql.ast.AST=debug
  
  ### log just the SQL
  #log4j.logger.org.hibernate.SQL=debug
  
  ### log JDBC bind parameters ###
  log4j.logger.org.hibernate.type=info
  #log4j.logger.org.hibernate.type=debug
  
  ### log schema export/update ###
  log4j.logger.org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl=debug
  
  ### log HQL parse trees
  #log4j.logger.org.hibernate.hql=debug
  
  ### log cache activity ###
  #log4j.logger.org.hibernate.cache=debug
  
  ### log transaction activity
  #log4j.logger.org.hibernate.transaction=debug
  
  ### log JDBC resource acquisition
  #log4j.logger.org.hibernate.jdbc=debug
  
  ### enable the following line if you want to track down connection ###
  ### leakages when using DriverManagerConnectionProvider ###
  #log4j.logger.org.hibernate.connection.DriverManagerConnectionProvider=trac5</pre>