I was trying to stop the logreader binding flooding the eventlog also the network binding with
# chod - less flood on the logging - network
log4j2.appender.event.filter.network.type = RegexFilter
log4j2.appender.event.filter.network.regex = .*network.*
log4j2.appender.event.filter.network.onMatch = DENY
log4j2.appender.event.filter.network.onMisMatch = ACCEPT
# chod - less flood on the logging - logreader
log4j2.appender.event.filter.logreaderx.type = RegexFilter
log4j2.appender.event.filter.logreaderx.regex = .*logreader_reader.*
log4j2.appender.event.filter.logreaderx.onMatch = DENY
log4j2.appender.event.filter.logreaderx.onMisMatch = ACCEPT
it looked like the logging for the matching texts stopped but later it continued
i added the lines to
/var/lib/openhab2/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg