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Joseph Smith commented on LOG4J2-1480: -------------------------------------- I've updated to 2.8.2 and am programmatically creating CronTriggeringPolicy's without this error. I believe this is now fixed. > CronTriggeringPolicy timing / file deletion issue > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LOG4J2-1480 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1480 > Project: Log4j 2 > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.6.2 > Environment: 2013 macbook pro running OSX El Capitan. Log4j2 is > running as a module dependency to a bigger Vertx server project. > Reporter: matthew beckham > > Most of this issue is outlined in this stack overflow post: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38514101/log4j2-default-rollover-strategy-deleting-new-log-files > This details my attempt to use the CronTriggeringPolicy to rollover a log > file. My longterm goal was to have it roll over every 15 minutes, but used 1 > minutes intervals for testing (I did also try with 3 and 5 minute intervals > with the same outcome). > The gist of the issue is that after the first triggering of the cron > triggering policy (which happens at the correct time), the rollover mechanism > will disregard the cron schedule in place and attempt to rollover every > second. In addition to this, the log file that is created from a rollover can > be deleted immediately after it is created. The log file appears to not get > deleted if there is a iterator argument (%i) in the file name though. > I don't know if these are two separate issues, or if the file deletion is a > side effect of the cron scheduling getting messed up. > For now I have switched to using TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy and that appears > to be working correctly at the moment. > Logs and sample configuration code can be found in the linked stack overflow > post. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)