You've convinced me. Originally we suspected it was a quirk of AIX but as you rightly pointed out it is cross platform - I stand corrected.
Top marks to Ceki for acknowledging a fix, v1.3 just keeps getting better... Tim. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Typrowicz, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Log4J Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:04 AM Subject: RE: Daily Rolling Appender Failing > Tim, > > I found your thread a couple of weeks ago and this is the one we implemented > as well. I disagree that it is not a log4j problem. As you pointed out in > the code it doesn't check to see if the rename failed. In my opinion log4j > should handle all platforms, even Windows. I was hoping the log4j > developers would put a fix in the next release, otherwise, a lot of folks > will have to do the same hack again. > > > Thank you, > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:52 PM > To: Log4J Users List > Subject: Re: Daily Rolling Appender Failing > > We had this problem on AIX, although we never tracked down the specific > cause the behaviour is identical. I don't think it is necessarily a Log4J > problem either - more to do with the file system itself. We ended up > writing a nasty hack version of the rolling file appender. There was a > discussion about this on the list a couple of months ago - is there a > searchable archive anywhere? > > Tim. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 3:13 PM > Subject: RE: Daily Rolling Appender Failing > > > > I don't think this is a problem with log4j, more of an issue with the way > > Windows handles renaming open files (or perhaps the way Java does it). > > > > I just avoid the problem by not keeping log files open overnight, or just > > copying to another location before opening them. Kind of like the joke > > where the guy goes to the doctor and says "it hurts when I do this", and > the > > doctor goes, "then don't do that." :) > > > > Seriously though, if you are in a production environment on Windows, you > can > > find yourself missing some log messages if you run into this so it is > > certainly something to be careful to avoid. > > > > Ken > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Typrowicz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:56 PM > > > To: 'Log4J Users List' > > > Subject: RE: Daily Rolling Appender Failing > > > > > > > > > Ken, > > > > > > Thank you for your reply. Do you know if the log4j > > > developers are working > > > on a solution? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Jim > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:18 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: Daily Rolling Appender Failing > > > > > > I have found that files can fail to roll over on Windows if > > > you still have > > > them open (such as with tail or Wordpad) when log4j tries to > > > roll over . > > > This might be your problem. > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
