DailyRollingFileAppender - new day log file filled with null characters..

[Sorin POPA <so...@yahoo.com>]

Hello, amigos!

We are using a log4cxx 0.9.8 build and we have the following issue with a DailyRollingFileAppender:

If the application that uses log4cxx is running when the date switch takes place (in this case, when the day changes), the new generated log file contains thousands of null characters mixed with the logged ones.. For each logged character there is a null character next to it.
If the logging service doesn't pass through the moment of changing the period, the log files are clean.

We've noticed this behaviour recently, although we've been using this logging service and this type of appender for almost a year.

We cannot trace exactly the moment and the changes in usage (if there are any, because consciously we do not really aknowledge any..).

After a while spent searching for this behaviour on the net (mail lists, logs, etc..) I didn't come accross other people's similar experiences. So, I believe there may be something we miss in this picture.

There is only one place I've met something similar - it is the How to reset your log files
 section in the Apache HOWTO Documentation for HTTP Server Version 1.3.

This subject seems pretty obsolete, but we would appreciate any advice or direction to investigate some more..


Thanks and have a great day you all, muchachos!


Sorin






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