My RollingFileAppender recently stopped working but only when running Tomcat as
a service in Windows. What its doing is just overwriting the existing log once
it reaches the MaxFileSize threshold.
Interestingly, if I start tomcat using the "catalina.bat jpda start" command
the appender works fine.
I've also checked the permissions on the log directory and its set to full
permissions for everyone. I've also tried running the service with my admin
user account.
This problem just recently manifested and I'm wondering if maybe it has
something to do with a windows patch our system admins might have applied.
Another interesting observation. If I go into the log4j.properties file and
change the appender.File name to something else "promotions2.log" it starts to
work. I can then delete the original file "promotions.log" and reset
appender.File to "promotions.log" and once again it doesn't work. Furthermore,
I can now switch it back to "promotions2.log" and it still doesn't work! What
the heck!?
Any help/work around would be great.
Here is the setup:
Log4J: 1.2.12
Tomcat Version: 5.0.18
JVM Version: 1.5.0_06-b05
JVM Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
OS Name: Windows 2000
OS Version: 5.0
OS Architecture: x86
Log4j.properties file
log4j.debug=true
log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, promotions
log4j.appender.promotions=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.promotions.File=c:/logs/promotions.log
log4j.appender.promotions.MaxFileSize=50KB
log4j.appender.promotions.MaxBackupIndex=9
log4j.appender.promotions.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.promotions.layout.ConversionPattern=[%p] [%d{DATE}] (%C:%M:%L) -
%m%n
log4j.logger.net.sf.hibernate=DEBUG
As you can see, I've got debuging turned on for log4j but it claims that it is
successfully renaming the files as indicated below in the tomcat stdout.log
log4j: rolling over count=51264
log4j: maxBackupIndex=9
log4j: Renaming file c:\logs\promotions.log to c:\logs\promotions.log.1
log4j: setFile called: c:/logs/promotions.log, false
log4j: setFile ended
log4j: rolling over count=51556
log4j: maxBackupIndex=9
log4j: Renaming file c:\logs\promotions.log to c:\logs\promotions.log.1
log4j: setFile called: c:/logs/promotions.log, false
log4j: setFile ended
log4j: rolling over count=51853
log4j: maxBackupIndex=9
log4j: Renaming file c:\logs\promotions.log to c:\logs\promotions.log.1
log4j: setFile called: c:/logs/promotions.log, false
log4j: setFile ended
Thanks, Dan
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