Author: rjung Date: Wed Dec 5 11:29:31 2012 New Revision: 1417363 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1417363&view=rev Log: Clarify ALV docs (log file name stuff).
Modified: tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml Modified: tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml?rev=1417363&r1=1417362&r2=1417363&view=diff ============================================================================== --- tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml (original) +++ tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml Wed Dec 5 11:29:31 2012 @@ -80,6 +80,17 @@ <code>AccessLog</code> implementation found to log those requests that are rejected before they are passed to a container.</p> + <p>The output file will be placed in the directory given by the + <code>directory</code> attribute. The name of the file is composed + by concatenation of the configured <code>prefix</code>, timestamp and + <code>suffix</code>. The format of the timestamp in the file name can be + set using the <code>fileDateFormat</code> attribute. This timestamp will + be omitted if the file rotation is switched off by setting + <code>rotatable</code> to <code>false</code>.</p> + + <p><strong>Warning:</strong> If multiple AccessLogValve instances + are used, they should be configured to use different output files.</p> + <p>If sendfile is used, the response bytes will be written asynchronously in a separate thread and the access log valve will not know how many bytes were actually written. In this case, the number of bytes that was passed to @@ -175,7 +186,7 @@ <attribute name="rotatable" required="false"> <p>Flag to determine if log rotation should occur. If set to <code>false</code>, then this file is never rotated and - <code>fileDateFormat</code> is ignored. Use with caution! + <code>fileDateFormat</code> is ignored. Default value: <code>true</code> </p> </attribute> @@ -223,11 +234,12 @@ </attribute> <attribute name="fileDateFormat" required="false"> - <p>Allows a customized date format in the access log file name. - The date format also decides how often the file is rotated. + <p>Allows a customized timestamp in the access log file name. + The file is rotated whenever the formatted timestamp changes. + The default value is <code>.yyyy-MM-dd</code>. If you wish to rotate every hour, then set this value - to: <code>.yyyy-MM-dd.HH</code>. The default value is - <code>.yyyy-MM-dd</code>. The date format will always be localized + to <code>.yyyy-MM-dd.HH</code>. + The date format will always be localized using the locale <code>en_US</code>. </p> </attribute> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org