Hi, Take a look at the http://www.simonsite.org.uk/javadoc/org/apache/log4j/appender/TimeAndSizeRollingAppender.html. Source is available in the JAR at http://www.simonsite.org.uk/resources/lib/log4j-rolling-appender.jar. This appender does a similar thing to your custom appender by the sounds of it.
Simon ________________________________ From: Guy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 19 March, 2009 9:48:51 Subject: Custom Appender works fine with rootlogger, but not when logger specified Hi, I have written a custom appender that adds file rotation and zipping of the rotated files. Some other custom functionality is added. What I do is: when a file has reached a certain size, I close the file, rename it and compress it. After the rename, I reset the file. The renaming of the file is where it all goes wrong. Everything works fine if I stick to using the rootLogger: <Defining of our custom appender> log4j.rootLogger=INFO, ddm #THIS WORKS FINE #log4j.logger.mylogger=INFO #THIS DOES NOT WORK FINE. Note That we do not even write to this logger (class) log4j.logger.be.package=INFO, mylogger SO for some reason, using the line "log4j.logger.be.package=INFO, mylogger" creates an object that prevents the rename from taking place. I have looked at the RollingFileAppender about closing the file/writing to the stream, but as far as I can see, I do the same. I could also rewrite my custom appender starting from the RollingFileAppender, but that is something I want to prevent Any help would be apreciated Guy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
