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Re: Logging problem

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On 3/8/2012 3:06 PM, Novice wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj<arne@vajhoej.dk>  wrote in
> news:4f590d2a$0$295$14726298@news.sunsite.dk:
>
>> On 3/8/2012 2:38 PM, Novice wrote:
>>> I've suddenly started having an odd problem with respect to my
>>> logging and would appreciate a hint or tip to help me sort it out.
>>>
>>> For some reason I can't figure out, the last line of the log, which
>>> simply says:
>>>
>>> </log>
>>>
>>> is not being written. When I try to open the log file, I see a
>>> companion file with it that appears to be a lock. (If the log file is
>>> Foo.log.xml, the companion file is Foo.log.xml.lck and the companion
>>> file's size is 0.) If I delete the lock file, I can open the log file
>>> and it is missing the final</log>   tag.
>>>
>>> Now, I know that the final</log>   tag is written within XMLFormatter
>>> in a simple method called getTail(). What I can't figure out is why
>>> getTail() isn't being invoked any more. I don't know how it was being
>>> invoked before - I certainly never call it in my code - but it was
>>> being invoked because that last tag was in the file. Now, suddenly,
>>> it's not.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to make getTail() execute
>>> again "automagically" the way it used to. Unfortunately, I don't know
>>> how to get past this on my own and am not sure where to look.
>>
>> Don't log in XML format ...
>>
>
> Obviously, that is one option but it wouldn't be my first choice ;-)
>
> I strongly prefer the XML logs because I've got an XSL that formats the
> XML log for my purposes and makes the log very easy to read. It's worked
> fine for weeks now - and still does when the last</log>  tag is in the
> file - so I just want to figure out what foolish thing I've done to keep
> the getTail() method from working.

The concept of writing per log message and then having to write a
termination line after the last log message is very problematic.

Arne

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Logging problem Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-08 19:38 +0000
  Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-08 14:48 -0500
    Re: Logging problem Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-08 20:06 +0000
      Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-08 15:38 -0500
        Re: Logging problem Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-08 22:02 +0000
      Re: Logging problem Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-03-08 14:53 -0800
        Re: Logging problem markspace <-@.> - 2012-03-08 15:20 -0800
          Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-08 19:48 -0500
            Re: Logging problem Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-03-08 17:17 -0800
              Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-08 20:55 -0500
                Re: Logging problem markspace <-@.> - 2012-03-08 18:01 -0800
                Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-08 21:19 -0500
      Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-08 20:56 -0500
  Re: Logging problem markspace <-@.> - 2012-03-08 14:18 -0800
    Re: Logging problem Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-09 01:53 +0000
      Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-08 20:59 -0500
      Re: Logging problem Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-09 05:36 +0000
        Re: Logging problem Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-03-09 06:27 -0800
        Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-09 12:31 -0500
          Re: Logging problem Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-09 18:57 +0000
            Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-09 14:26 -0500
        Re: Logging problem Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-09 15:59 -0400
          Re: Logging problem Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-09 21:32 +0000
            Re: Logging problem Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-09 13:56 -0800
              Re: Logging problem Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-09 22:57 +0000
                Re: Logging problem Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-10 14:51 +0000
                Re: Logging problem Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-10 13:00 -0400
                Re: Logging problem Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-10 10:04 -0800
                Re: Logging problem Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-10 20:23 +0000
                Re: Logging problem Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-10 07:56 -0800
                Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-10 12:05 -0500
                Re: Logging problem Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-10 10:10 -0800
                Re: Logging problem Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-12 16:13 -0400
                Re: Logging problem Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-10 20:10 +0000
            Re: Logging problem Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-09 19:15 -0400
              Re: Logging problem Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-10 01:59 +0000

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