Re: Logging multiple VMs to the same log with DaRoFiAppender

[James Stauffer <st...@gmail.com>]

Only one VM should write to any log file.  You could have the other VM
send the log messages to the first VM over a socket (2nd VM uses
SocketAppender and 1st VM uses SocketNode to receive them).

On 1/10/06, Tobias Mantsch <t....@durato.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
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> I'm logging output from different VMs to the same log-file using the
> DailyRollingFileAppender. Now I ran into the problem that file rolling
> was not possible because the log file could not be renamed by one of the
> VMs because the others logging to the same file kept handles to this
> file and thus forbade renaming of the file. The result is that I only
> have the actual log file but no historical versions as the file is never
> rolled.
>
> Is there a possibility to log several VMs to the same log without
> running in this kind of problems?
>
> The several VMs are running simultaneously and are accessing the log
> simultaneously. Writing to the log is no problem but renaming for file
> rotation is.
>
> Maybe someone knows a feasible solution for this?
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>
>
> Regards
>
> Tobias Mantsch
>
>
>


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