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Remko Popma edited comment on LOG4J2-1592 at 9/18/16 8:46 AM: -------------------------------------------------------------- Please take a look at this manual page: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/logsep.html >From your description either option 1 or option 2 under "Using Context >Selectors" may do what you want. If multiple web applications need to log to the same file, the FileAppender's internal FileManager must be a single instance, and that only happens if the _logging jars are all placed in the container's classpath_. (If each web application has its own copy of the logging jars in WEB-INF/lib, they will be loaded separately by the web application's classloader, and they will not be able to cooperate during rollovers.) Now you can either give each web application a separate log4j2.xml configuration (simply place it in WEB-INF/classes) or you can have a single shared configuration. Note: You can trouble-shoot how Log4j 2 is initializing by setting {{<Configuration status="trace"}} at the beginning of the log4j2.xml configuration file. If the configuration file is not found correctly, you can still enable log4j2 internal status logging by setting system property {{-Dorg.apache.logging.log4j.simplelog.StatusLogger.level=TRACE}}. was (Author: rem...@yahoo.com): Please take a look at this manual page: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/logsep.html >From your description either option 1 or option 2 under "Using Context >Selectors" may do what you want. If multiple web applications need to log to the same file, the FileAppender's internal FileManager must be a single instance, and that only happens if the _logging jars are all placed in the container's classpath_. (If each web application has its own copy of the logging jars in WEB-INF/lib, they will be loaded separately by the web application's classloader, and they will not be able to cooperate during rollovers.) Now you can either give each web application a separate log4j2.xml configuration (simply place it in WEB-INF/classes) or you can have a single shared configuration. > Logging not working properly > ---------------------------- > > Key: LOG4J2-1592 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1592 > Project: Log4j 2 > Issue Type: Bug > Environment: Linux 3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 > 19:10:07 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Reporter: Farhad Tarapore > > I am using the following config > {code} > <Configuration status="warn" name="in.transerv" packages=""> > <Properties> > <Property name="baseDir">/var/log/tomcat</Property> > </Properties> > <Appenders> > <RollingFile name="RollingFile" fileName="${baseDir}/app.log" > filePattern="${baseDir}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/app-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log.gz"> > <PatternLayout pattern="%5p %d{ISO8601} [%t][%x] %c - %m%n" /> > <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy/> > </RollingFile> > </Appenders> > <Loggers> > <Root level="debug"> > <AppenderRef ref="RollingFile"/> > </Root> > </Configuration> > {code} > In my Tomcat startup, I have specified the log4j.xml file as > -Dlog4j.configurationFile=<path to file> > It gets initialized properly as I see the logs coming in the app.log > However, at midnight of each day when it is supposed to rollover, I see the > following directory structure > {code} > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 62 Sep 18 00:00 2016-09 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 18 07:48 app.log-2016-09-18 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 351893 Sep 18 07:58 app.log > {code} > The file for the previous day gets truncated to 0 bytes and the directory > 2016-09 contains NOTHING. > I just want to log to app.log and each day, I want to save the previous days > log file as a .gz with the date pattern. But it is not happening. > I was using log4j 1.x, I switched over to 2.x since I was having issues with > log files getting corrupted (log lines disappearing) when multiple tomcat > processes tried to write into the same file. > Please help me since these logs are critical to our application. Thanks. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org