<putting foot in mouth> I promise not to ask any more questions without thoroughly looking through the docs ;) First I see that JAXP thing is in the FAQ, and now I see there's a DailyRollingFileAppender already.
Sorry for the multiple messages, confusion, etc... Yoav Yoav Shapira wrote: > > Hi there, > I'd like to have a FileAppender that automatically rolls over at > midnight each day and appends the date (preferably in a specified > format, see example below) and labels its file with the date it > was created. Is such a thing available already in log4j, or would > it be a welcome addition if someone were to write it? > > Sample XML: > <appender > name="dailyLogFile" > class="org.apache.log4j.DailyFileAppender"> > <param name="File" value="dailyLog." /> > <param name="DateFormat" value="yyyy-mmm-dd" /> > <layout ... /> > </appender> > > Say my logging directory is /temp/log and today is 2001-Oct-18. > What I'd like to happen is when log4j is started, a file > /temp/log/dailyLog.2001-Oct-18 is created. Everything works normally. > At midnight between 2001-Oct-18 and 2001-Oct-19, that file is closed > and a new one is opened, > /temp/log/dailyLog.2001-Oct-19 > with the same priority, configuration, etc. > > Sorry for the verbosity of the message. Is something like this doable > with the existing API? I know Tomcat4.0 does something similar with > its log files, which supposedly use log4j... > Thanks, > > Yoav Shapira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
