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log4j RollingFileAppender (was: Not closing connections and statements)

From Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject log4j RollingFileAppender (was: Not closing connections and statements)
Date 2016-08-14 22:24 +0200
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On 13.08.16 16.04, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> In contrast to log4j
>> files will never get renamed because this could confuse concurrently
>> reading applications or even cause locks (depending on the OS and file
>> system). Instead we use (partial) time-stamps in the log name, e.g. the
>> date in yyyymmdd format.
>
> I believe that is what log4j RollingFileAppender does as well.

AFAIK it uses rename, similar to syslog. See documentation of rollOver.
This is unusable for concurrent (unsynchronized) read access.


Marcel

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Not closing connections and statements Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-12 13:59 +0200
  Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-12 09:15 -0400
    Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-12 09:39 -0400
    Re: Not closing connections and statements Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-08-12 22:31 +0200
      Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-12 22:04 -0400
        Re: Not closing connections and statements Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-08-13 07:55 +0200
  Re: Not closing connections and statements Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-08-12 19:01 +0000
    Re: Not closing connections and statements Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-08-12 22:35 +0200
      Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-12 21:52 -0400
    Re: Not closing connections and statements Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-12 23:55 +0200
      Re: Not closing connections and statements Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-08-12 18:16 -0400
        Re: Not closing connections and statements Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-13 01:19 +0200
          Re: Not closing connections and statements Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-08-13 00:21 +0000
            Re: Not closing connections and statements Gunter Herrmann <gunter.herrmann@earthlink.net> - 2016-08-17 16:38 -0400
      Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-12 21:58 -0400
        Re: Not closing connections and statements Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-13 12:50 +0200
      Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-12 21:59 -0400
      Re: Not closing connections and statements Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-08-13 08:47 +0200
        Re: Not closing connections and statements Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-08-13 08:05 +0000
          Re: Not closing connections and statements Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-13 12:21 +0200
          Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-13 09:54 -0400
        Re: Not closing connections and statements Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-13 12:19 +0200
        Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-13 10:04 -0400
          log4j RollingFileAppender (was: Not closing connections and statements) Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-08-14 22:24 +0200
            Re: log4j RollingFileAppender Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-14 21:01 -0400
        Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-13 11:58 -0400
          logging (was: Not closing connections and statements) Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-08-14 23:46 +0200
    Re: Not closing connections and statements Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-12 21:44 -0400
  Re: Not closing connections and statements Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2016-08-13 16:33 +0200
    Re: Not closing connections and statements Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-13 17:34 +0200

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