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Juan Loman commented on LOG4J2-1185:
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As [[email protected]] suggested, I tried with a 
{{CronTriggeringPolicy}} and it worked as expected.  So effectively the issue 
of skipping the first rollover happens with the {{TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy}}.

The config I used:

{code}
<RollingRandomAccessFile name="MyLogger"
    filePattern="logs/application.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log">
    <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - 
%msg%n"/>
    <Policies>
        <CronTriggeringPolicy schedule="0 * * * * ?" evaluateOnStartup="true"/>
    </Policies>
    <DirectWriteRolloverStrategy/>
</RollingRandomAccessFile>
{code}

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As for {{RollingRandomAccessFileAppender}} support, I found after looking at 
the source code that this feature was only implemented for 
{{RollingFileAppender}}.  For that I opened issue LOG4J2-1878.

> Ability to change the fileName dynamically in RollingFileAppender
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-1185
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1185
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Appenders
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>            Reporter: Dhwaneet Bhatt
>            Assignee: Ralph Goers
>             Fix For: 2.8
>
>
> Right now RollingFileAppender rolls over the current file with fileName to 
> the one generated by FilePattern. However, logging always continues in the 
> same fileName i.e. fileName once created cannot be changed.
> Property Substitution is only once during initialization, fileName is never 
> changed after RollingFileManager is initialized. The RollingFileManager is 
> very tightly tied up to the fileName attribute.
> Consider that I want to name my log files like this using RollingFileAppender:
> mylog-2015-10-30.log
> mylog-2015-10-29.log
> mylog-2015-10-28.log
> There is no good way to achieve this, because even after rolling over the 
> file, the fileName would still remain the same. If I initialized my fileName 
> using $\{date:yyyy-MM-dd\}, date would be substituted only once during 
> initialization and it would never change, always continue to log in the same 
> log file (until I restart my application).



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