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Posted to log4j-user@logging.apache.org by Erik Price <ep...@ptc.com> on 2003/04/25 18:45:51 UTC

overwrite FileAppender

Hi,

I have a command line app using Log4J and my log4j configuration 
specifies that it writes to a FileAppender.  Is there a way to set the 
FileAppender to overwrite, rather than append to, the named file?  If 
not, no problem because I can just have my launcher script delete the 
file first.

Also, is there a list of all of the possible property configurations? 
I've read the short manual and browsed the javadocs, but I didn't see a 
[more complete] guide to the various configurations.  (For instance, I 
know about ConsoleAppender, RollingFileAppender, and FileAppender from 
the short manual, but not sure if I missed something....)



Erik


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Re: overwrite FileAppender

Posted by Erik Price <ep...@ptc.com>.
Thank you both.  As for the configurations, I'll just go back to the 
javadocs.  Thanks again.


Erik




Erik Price wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a command line app using Log4J and my log4j configuration 
> specifies that it writes to a FileAppender.  Is there a way to set the 
> FileAppender to overwrite, rather than append to, the named file?  If 
> not, no problem because I can just have my launcher script delete the 
> file first.
> 
> Also, is there a list of all of the possible property configurations? 
> I've read the short manual and browsed the javadocs, but I didn't see a 
> [more complete] guide to the various configurations.  (For instance, I 
> know about ConsoleAppender, RollingFileAppender, and FileAppender from 
> the short manual, but not sure if I missed something....)
> 
> 
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
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Re: overwrite FileAppender

Posted by Jacob Kjome <ho...@visi.com>.
At 12:45 PM 4/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a command line app using Log4J and my log4j configuration specifies 
>that it writes to a FileAppender.  Is there a way to set the FileAppender 
>to overwrite, rather than append to, the named file?  If not, no problem 
>because I can just have my launcher script delete the file first.

Within the FileAppender config use...

<param name="Append" value="false" />


Jake