RE: FileWatchDog

2005-10-18 Thread William Ferguson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Womack > But what happens when the filewatchdog detects a > subsequent change in the configuration file? Is the file wiped again? Yes, that's what would happen. But in practice the log config is rarely changed and I think that would be an acceptable outcome. &g

Re: FileWatchDog

2005-10-18 Thread Mark Womack
Thanks for the suggestion. But what happens when the filewatchdog detects a subsequent change in the configuration file? Is the file wiped again? Would it be better to enable the "append" settings on the FileAppender? There are little issues like this that need to be looked at for the

FileWatchDog

2005-10-18 Thread William Ferguson
Hi If you're planning changes for FileWatchDog in the coming 1.3 release, I'd like to request that it determines the lastModified time of the File in the FileWatchDog constructor prior to calling #checkAndConfigure. Otherwise any existing log file is erased when the FIleWatchDog ex