Steve,

Can you put the user name in the file name so each user has a separate set if 
files?

David

On 6 Jun 2013, at 18:39, Steve Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:

> My previous thread showed me being successfully guided to a solution to 
> rollover problems, by removing the File element of the rolling policy to 
> avoid renaming issues.
> 
> These problems surfaced in my instance due the following operational 
> environment:
> 
> 1) A GUI application running under Windows, not a server-side application.
> 
> 2) Application is launched from time to time by different users.  This leads 
> to file-ownership issues preventing rename operation.
> 
> Similar problems occur in the delete scenario based on the <maxHistory> 
> element.
> 
> But in this case, there is no workaround for deletion
> 
> Also I wonder about this:
> 
> TimeBasedArchiveRemover.cleanByPeriodOffset() calls java.io.File.delete().
> 
> File.delete() returns a boolean which is not checked in 
> cleanByPeriodOffset().  It also throws a SecurityException (a 
> RuntimeException) which isn't checked for.  I'm not sure where this would be 
> caught but I'm guessing it isn't the case here or we would have more 
> catastrophic failures, so I suppose it's just returning false.
> 
> Should logback do something about this?  It's not clear because it's not 
> clear what it could do.  There is no alternative as in the case of renaming.
> 
> Is there any solution available other than setting the directory so that 
> every user has full rights to it?  Mere write access is not enough in the 
> Windows permissions scheme.
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