Re: FileAppender append="false" does not truncate the file on startup

You have both the FileAppender and RollingFileAppender writing to the same file. This is certainly going to cause problems. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Java causes them to share the same OS File and stream objects so only one of the ones Java requests actually works. If it didn't do

FileAppender append="false" does not truncate the file on startup

I expect app.log to be truncated on my application startup. This is not the case. It is never truncated. Please help Thanks Sharath

Re: FileAppender append="false" does not truncate the file on startup

Can you provide your full configuration? (You may want to raise a Jira ticket to track this issue.) To confirm, the actual behaviour is that log4j appends to the end of the existing app.log file, is that correct? Sent from my iPhone > On 2015/09/02, at 2:50, Sharath Gururaj

Re: FileAppender append="false" does not truncate the file on startup

Can you also add status=“DEBUG” to your configuration and provide that? I’d like to see what is being passed through the configuration. Ralph > On Sep 1, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Remko Popma wrote: > > Can you provide your full configuration? (You may want to raise a Jira