Your log4j File should look something like below read comments.
Define the types of logger and level of logging
log4j.rootLogger = DEBUG,console, FILE
Define the File appender
log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
Define Console Appender
log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
Define the layout for console appender. If you do not
define it, you will get an error
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
Set the name of the file
log4j.appender.FILE.File=log.out
Set the immediate flush to true (default)
log4j.appender.FILE.ImmediateFlush=true
Set the threshold to debug mode
log4j.appender.FILE.Threshold=debug
Set the append to false, overwrite
log4j.appender.FILE.Append=false
Define the layout for file appender
log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.FILE.layout.conversionPattern=%m%n