Re: RollingFileAppender not rolling logs

On Nov 8, 2007 4:42 PM, Ramkumar Jeyaraman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> My log files are not getting rolled as expected. The RollingFileAppender
> is
> given below. My Application.log gets overwritten when the max size is
> reached. I have already done the following and haven't found the cause of
> the problem yet:
>
> 1. changed application.log to app.log in case two instances were writing
> to
> the same log file, but app.log also got overwritten.
> 2. changed maxfilesize to lower amount (to 15KB from 15MB). It gets
> overwritten after 15KB.
> 3. Compared with other working log4j.xml files and haven't noticed
> anything
> significant.
> 4. Restarted the server and no effect.
>
> Has anyone faced this problem before or have ideas how to track it down?
>
> <appender name="xxxRolling" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
> <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/>
> <param name="File" value="d:/logs/app_logs/project/Application.log" />
> <param name="MaxFileSize" value="15KB" />
> <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="15" />
> <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="[5.st]%d[5.DT]%-5p[5.PRI]%X{USERID}
> [5.NDC]%t[5.THD]%m[5.MES]%c[5.CAT]%X{enterpriseSessionId}[5.LOC]%n" />
> </layout>
> </appender>
>

Ramkumar,

Don't you think http://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/index.html would be better
place to find an answer for your question?

Nirav Thaker
http://blog.nirav.name

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