On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Martin, > > On 8/3/17 5:47 AM, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > is there a way to compress the localhost_access_log.#####.txt file > > automatically after rotation? > > Not really. The file is rotated *during* log events, and stalling to > compress a log file is probably not a great solution. > > > Alternatively/preferably is there a way to put the access logging > > under "log4j"? > > Also not really, but if you are willing to write code, you can do it. > The AccessLogValve handles its own logging to a file, but if you were > to subclass AccessLogValve and override the "open" method and assign a > value to the AccessLogValve.writer member that writes to a log4j > logger, then I think you could probably do this. > > I believe that log4j will stall your access log during the > compression, though, so you might want to think about whether or not > you want to implement it this way. > > I think at least logback is performing file operations asynchronously to log events so maybe using slf4j over logback would be a more reliable way. regards Leon
