Hi Heri, that is exactly I was searching for. Thank you for your advise. It works perfect.
Jason ---------------------------------- You cannot get access to the file object itself for reading purpose because the FileAppender uses a FileWriter class for writing to the file. But you can learn the file name where the appender writes to. Not each logger instance which you get by Logger.getLogger() has appenders attached. Only the logger instances whose name is exactly as a configured one have in fact the appenders attached as configured. So, if your logger instance has no RollingFileAppender attached, you would have to ask the parent logger, and so on, until you find the desired appender. Since the appenders instances are singleton, it would be easier to ask the LogManager for all appenders and iterate on these to find your desired RollingFileAppender. Once you have found the correct appender instance, you cast it and ask it for the file name for use in a file reader object. I am not sure about the lock mechanisme applied by a RollingFileAppender, if there are any. You have to try. Heri ____________________________________________________________________ Psssst! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org
