FYI I fully restarted the server (instead of just iisreset) and fooled around with the directory permissions and now it is working.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michelle Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Log4NET User" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:11 AM Subject: Re: log4net 1.2.10 overwriting instead of rolling over > 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> > > > >
