Hi Shaun, Take a look at a new logging appender that has been added to the DSpace 1.6 code. It uses datestamps instead of numbers, so no file renaming is required. This may help:
http://scm.dspace.org/trac/dspace/browser/dspace/trunk/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/util/DailyFileAppender.java Thanks, Stuart Lewis IT Innovations Analyst and Developer Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928 http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/ On 27/11/2009, at 10:58 PM, Shaun Donovan wrote: > Hi all. > > I am having a problem with the rotation of the log files. I have > searched extensively for an answer, but have not found one that works. > > I am running DSpace on a Windows server 2003 machine. > > I have the default setup of the %DSPACE%/conf/templates/log4j.properties > i.e > > # Set root category priority to INFO and its only appender to A1. > log4j.rootCategory=INFO, A1 > > # A1 is set to be a RollingFileAppender. > log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender > log4j.appender.A1.File=@@log.dir@@/dspace.log > # Roll when log file size is over 1Mb > log4j.appender.A1.MaxFileSize=1048576 > # Keep up to 500 files around > log4j.appender.A1.MaxBackupIndex=500 > > > # A1 uses PatternLayout. > log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p %c @ %m%n > > # A2 is the log for the Checker > log4j.category.org.dspace.checker=INFO, A2 > log4j.appender.A2=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender > log4j.appender.A2.File=@@log.dir@@/checker.log > log4j.appender.A2.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.A2.layout.ConversionPattern=%m%n > log4j.appender.A2.MaxFileSize=1048576 > log4j.appender.A2.MaxBackupIndex=500 > > > Although the data gets logged in this file, as soon as it reaches 1 meg, > it seems to rotate, but does not make a copy of the current file (as in > dspace.log.001). It simply overwrites the current file. This makes my > statistics invalid, as it reaches this limit multiple times a day, and > the statistics run on a daily basis. > > I have tried another configuration that I found that was suggested > because cocoon took over the logs and prevented dspace from logging, but > this caused the logs to rotate properly, but did not log the data from > dspace. > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Regards. > > Shaun > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
