When you say "with no success", what do you mean? What is actually happening?
Remko
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> On 2016/05/19, at 12:18, Laurent Hasson <l...@capsicohealth.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
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> I have the following XML configuration file for my webapp (under Tomcat 9).
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> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <Configuration status="info">
>
> <Properties>
>
> <Property
> name="log-path">C:\Projects\TomcatDevServer\logs\</Property>
>
> <Property name="now">${sys:startup}</Property>
>
> </Properties>
>
> <Appenders>
>
> <RollingFile name="FILES" fileName="${log-path}/capsico.log"
> filePattern="${log-path}/capsico.${now}.%i.log.gz">
>
> <PatternLayout>
>
> <pattern>%d{MMdd.HHmmss.SSS}#%-3t %level{length=1}
> %15.15c{1}| %m%ex{20}%n</pattern>
>
> </PatternLayout>
>
> <Policies>
>
> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB" />
>
> </Policies>
>
> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="99999"
> compressionLevel="9"/>
>
> </RollingFile>
>
> <Async name="ASYNC">
>
> <AppenderRef ref="FILES" />
>
> </Async>
>
> </Appenders>
>
> <Loggers>
>
> <Root level="debug">
>
> <AppenderRef ref="ASYNC" />
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> </Root>
>
> </Loggers>
>
> </Configuration>
>
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> I have done one thing that I haven't seen in any example, which is that all
> the logs are tagged with the timestamp of when the system started (using
> ${sys:startup}), rather than using an inline timestamp format. This allows
> me to group all log files per "server startup". This works well.
>
>
>
> Now, I would like to do the same thing for the initial/starting file, and I
> have tried fileName="${log-path}/capsico.${sys:startup}.log" but with no
> success. I have also tried:
>
> - fileName="${log-path}/capsico.$${sys:startup}.log"
>
> - fileName="${log-path}/capsico.${now}.log"
>
> - fileName="${log-path}/capsico.$S{now}.log"
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> I find this easier to manage in development or when troubleshooting
> deployment issues where the server may be re-started multiple times: instead
> of having a single "start" file with all the logging appended across
> multiple server restart, I would like to always get a new clean file
> everytime.
>
>
>
> Can this be done? I am sure there is a way by writing some Java code and
> all, but trying to figure out a config-level way first if available.
>
>
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> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Laurent Hasson
> Co-Founder and CTO
>
> CapsicoHealth Inc.
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>
>
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