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Browse All TopicsHello, we're using Jboss 4.2.3 and whenever Jboss is restarted, it overwrites the actual logfile. But we don't want that, we want it to either continue the logfile or rotate the logfile, preferring the first though. How to enable either of those?
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by: KeremEPosted on 2009-08-11 at 02:21:32ID: 25067247
Hi,
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This is the default behavior with JBoss. To correct this just locate your log4j.xml file at %JBOSS_HOME%/server/defaul
Locate the statement:
<appender name="FILE" class="org.jboss.logging.a
| <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.u
| <param name="File" value="${jboss.server.log.
| <param name="Append" value="false"/>
| <param name="MaxFileSize" value="500KB"/>
| <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="1"/>
|
| <layout class="org.apache.log4j.Pa
| <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%c] %m%n"/>
| </layout>
| </appender>
To make your logfile be appended modfiy this line:
<param name="Append" value="false"/>
to
<param name="Append" value="true"/>
For log rotation modify this line:
<param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="1"/>
into this:
<param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="10"/>
So that it will rotate your logs once the size is 500KB (default) you can modify this valuea too. Don't forget to restart your JBoss server after the modification.
cheers,
K.