It did the date roll over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. However when
the file reaches 20MB, then it just overwrites itself. I definitely did not
have the file open with any sort of tail program on Sat/Sun, so why would it
overwrite the file instead of rolling over?

Thanks,
Michelle Weber

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Log4NET User" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: log4net 1.2.10 overwriting instead of rolling over


> I was using "Tail for Win32". However, today I do not have the log
> file open with tail, and on one of my web servers the file is not
> rolling over.
>
> On 9/15/06, Morten Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What tail program do you use? If the program locks the file log4net
> > cannot roll the files.
> >
> > After having the same problem I started to use mtail. This solved the
> > problem.
> >
> > http://ophilipp.free.fr/soft/mtail.zip
> >
> > - Morten
> >
> > Michelle Weber wrote:
> > > I just upgraded to log4net 1.2.10 from 1.2.9 (to fix that exception
> > > message I wrote about last week). And I'm having a big problem with
> > > the log files not rolling over at maximumFileSize and instead just
> > > overwriting itself!
> > >
> > > I have this running on a asp.net app on 2 different web servers
> > > (win2003/iis6). I had both files open with Tail for windows and this
> > > was not a problem in 1.2.9, the files would properly roll over. After
> > > I closed tail, one of the servers started properly rolling over files,
> > > the other still is not rolling over files. The one that is not rolling
> > > over files at the max file size did roll over the file based on the
> > > date last night, but this morning continues to overwrite itself when
> > > it reaches max file size.
> > >
> > > This is my configuration on both servers, and is unchanged from when I
> > > was using 1.2.9 without a problem:
> > >
> > >      <log4net debug="false">
> > >          <appender name="HttpTraceAppender"
> > > type="log4net.Appender.AspNetTraceAppender" >
> > >              <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
> > >                  <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level
> > > %logger
> > > [%ndc] - %message%newline" />
> > >              </layout>
> > >          </appender>
> > >          <appender name="RollingLogFileAppender"
> > > type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
> > >              <file value="logs\serverip_log_" />
> > >              <rollingStyle value="Date" />
> > >              <appendToFile value="true" />
> > >             <rollingStyle value="Composite" />
> > >             <datePattern value="yyyyMMdd" />
> > >             <maxSizeRollBackups value="-1" />
> > >             <maximumFileSize value="20MB" />
> > >              <staticLogFileName value="false" />
> > >              <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
> > >                  <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level
> > > %logger
> > > [%ndc] - %message%newline" />
> > >              </layout>
> > >          </appender>
> > >          <root>
> > >              <level value="INFO" />
> > >              <appender-ref ref="RollingLogFileAppender" />
> > >              <appender-ref ref="HttpTraceAppender" />
> > >          </root>
> > >     </log4net>
> >

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