Try not creating any files (but the directory must be writable by tomcat)
On 3/23/06, Glenn Holmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've got several apps using a RollingFileAppender, but one keeps
> overwriting the first file instead of rolling over to .1, .2, .3, etc.
> He is a web app running under Tomcat, and this is how he is configured:
>
> log4j-1.2.9.jar is in /WEB-INF/classes of the webapp
> config file is in /WEB-INF/classes/com/weycogroup/...
> PropertyConfigurator is called in a ServletContextListener
>
> this is his config file:
>
> log4j.rootCategory=INFO, roller
>
> log4j.appender.roller=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
> log4j.appender.roller.File=/var/log/xxxxx.log
>
> log4j.appender.roller.MaxFileSize=10240KB
> log4j.appender.roller.MaxBackupIndex=10
>
> log4j.appender.roller.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
> log4j.appender.roller.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}
> %-5p %c{1} %M:%L %m%n
>
> I created all eleven files in /var/log and gave Tomcat permission to
> write to them. Logging works normally except for the roller not
> rolling. What have I done wrong?
>
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