Can you provide your full configuration? (You may want to raise a Jira ticket to track this issue.)
To confirm, the actual behaviour is that log4j appends to the end of the existing app.log file, is that correct? Sent from my iPhone > On 2015/09/02, at 2:50, Sharath Gururaj <e2718...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <File name="MyFile" fileName="app.log" append="false" > > > <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5level %l - %msg%n" > /> > > </File> > > > I expect app.log to be truncated on my application startup. > > This is not the case. It is never truncated. Please help > > > Thanks > > Sharath --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org