I'm not actually sure what the KeyfileApender is, but you should
always do this for a ServletContextListener shutdown event..
LogManager.shutdown();
Jake
At 08:35 AM 9/29/2006, you wrote:
>Hello all. I am quite new to log4j, so please bear with me if I am on the
>wrong track. Any feedback is welcome!
>
>I found the KeyFileAppender from Yoav Shapira, Steve Ebersole in the net and
>I was very happy with it.
>So I started using it on my transaction server, using the transaction code
>as a key and had all my transaction logging in files. I was really happy,
>then.
>But now, periodically, I have to shut down the server because the server (a
>JBoss 4.0.4) keeps (if not all) a lot of open filehandlers, from past
>transactions.
>I need to solve this problem and I stumble on some problems. The transaction
>does finish, and then I could close the logfile handler. How do I tell the
>logger to close it? I thought about adding a new method to KeyFileAppender,
>and the transact manager (which is my code) would have to cast the appender
>that I get from the logger and make it close that given key, something like:
>
>public void closeKeyFile(String key) {
> QuietWriter writer = (QuietWriter)writers.get(key);
> if (writer == null) return;
> try {
> writer.write( super.layout.getFooter() );
> if (super.immediateFlush)
> writer.flush();
> writer.close();
> }
> catch(IOException e) {
> LogLog.error("Could not close " + writer, e);
> }
>}
>
>Is that correct? I fear that isn't ok, I don't know. Maybe there's a newer
>KeyFileAppender somewhere that I don't know? Could you please tell?
>And, if I must implement that, I have one doubt. If I have to restart the
>transaction, a new Writer will be created? I think so, but...?
>
>Another idea would be to 'timeout' a writer, but that would require period
>checks somewhere in the logging system. Where do I put them? I really don't
>know, and I don't like the idea of creating a new thread
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Leo.
>
>
>
>
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