See http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5691 for details and a proposed patch.
The original patch to allow the logfile to pipe to a process was to allow for the use of a log rotating process like 'multilog' (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html). See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=1666 for details. I had a brief look at Log::Dispatch::FileRotate, but the 'Log4Perl FAQ' (http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/releases/Log-Log4perl/docs/html/Log/Log4perl/FAQ.html#923b3) says: > > Luckily, Mark Pfeiffer's Log::Dispatch::FileRotate appender works well > with Log::Log4perl to rotate your logfiles in a variety of ways. > > Note, however, that having the application deal with rotating a log > file is not cheap. Among other things, it requires locking the log file > with every write to avoid race conditions. There are good reasons to use > external rotators like newsyslog instead > The Log4Perl FAQ talks about using 'newsyslog' (http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/releases/Log-Log4perl/docs/html/Log/Log4perl/FAQ.html#2d0d0) but the appender needs some additional settings because newsyslog does not operate transparently; it will move the log file away to archive it as it rotates to the new log file! Thus I find the approach presented by multilog preferable because it provides a good means to achieve log rotation in a light weight and transparent way. -- quietdragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ quietdragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10412 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36304 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
