Avoiding YYYY-MM-DD in log file names (tomcat 4.1.12)

[Steinar Bang <sb...@dod.no>]

Is it possible to avoid the YYYY-MM-DD in the log file names of tomcat
4.1.12?  I would prefer to just let linux logrotate handle the
rotation of log files.

According to 
  <URL:http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/logger.html>
there is no possibility to configure it away, but perhaps someone
knows of a simple workaround?

Thanx!


- Steinar




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Re: Avoiding YYYY-MM-DD in log file names (tomcat 4.1.12)

[Steinar Bang <sb...@dod.no>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb...@dod.no>:

> Is it possible to avoid the YYYY-MM-DD in the log file names of
> tomcat 4.1.12?  I would prefer to just let linux logrotate handle
> the rotation of log files.

> According to 
>   <URL:http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/logger.html>
> there is no possibility to configure it away, but perhaps someone
> knows of a simple workaround?

The most obvious workaround, ie. subclass
org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger and tweak the filename, isn't
possible since FileLogger is a final class.

So I'm left with copying FileLogger, and just chopping away the code I
don't need.

Would a patch to add an extra config parameter to FileLogger, that
would make it not add the date to the file name, have any chance of
being accepted?




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