RollingFileAppender *NOT* creating backups

[Roland Chan <rc...@casebank.com>]

Hello,
 
We've recently modified a FileAppender to a RollingFileAppender, here is
our config:
 
log4j.appender.trace=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.trace.File=/tomcat/logs/acmeLog
log4j.appender.trace.MaxFileSize=20MB
log4j.appender.trace.MaxBackupIndex=100
log4j.appender.trace.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.trace.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%9t] %-5p
%c{1} %x - %m%n
log4j.appender.trace.Threshold=DEBUG
 
Our problem is that the backup file is not being created.  Instead it is
overwriting the acmeLog after it has reached it's max file size.  There
are no acmeLog.n files being created.  Any glaring problems above?
 
Please help, we'd like to very much use this appender in production at
some point.
 
Regards,
Roland
 
Software Developer, R&D
CaseBank Technologies, Inc.
1 Kenview Blvd.
Brampton, ON  L6T 5E6
(905) 792-1981 ext. 519
 

Re: RollingFileAppender *NOT* creating backups

[Ceki Gülcü <ce...@qos.ch>]

Why don't you start with a smaller value for MaxBackupIndex, say 2 or 3.
Similarly, try 10KB instead of 20MB. I also suggest you look at log4j 
internal output
by adding the following directive to your conf file.

log4j.debug=true

Let us know if it does or does not work.

At 10:11 22.05.2002 -0400, Roland Chan wrote:
>Hello,
>
>We've recently modified a FileAppender to a RollingFileAppender, here is
>our config:
>
>log4j.appender.trace=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
>log4j.appender.trace.File=/tomcat/logs/acmeLog
>log4j.appender.trace.MaxFileSize=20MB
>log4j.appender.trace.MaxBackupIndex=100
>log4j.appender.trace.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>log4j.appender.trace.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%9t] %-5p
>%c{1} %x - %m%n
>log4j.appender.trace.Threshold=DEBUG
>
>Our problem is that the backup file is not being created.  Instead it is
>overwriting the acmeLog after it has reached it's max file size.  There
>are no acmeLog.n files being created.  Any glaring problems above?
>
>Please help, we'd like to very much use this appender in production at
>some point.
>
>Regards,
>Roland
>
>Software Developer, R&D
>CaseBank Technologies, Inc.
>1 Kenview Blvd.
>Brampton, ON  L6T 5E6
>(905) 792-1981 ext. 519
>

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Ceki


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