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/* Changing the layout to use less space for mobiles */
@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px), screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
    #email-body { min-width: 30em !important; }
    #email-page { padding: 8px !important; }
    #email-banner { padding: 8px 8px 0 8px !important; }
    #email-avatar { margin: 1px 8px 8px 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; }
    #email-fields { padding: 0 8px 8px 8px !important; }
    #email-gutter { width: 0 !important; }
}
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<div id="email-body">
<table id="email-wrap" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:#f0f0f0;color:#000000;width:100%;">
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        <td id="email-page" style="padding:16px !important;">
            <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:#ffffff;border:1px solid #bbbbbb;color:#000000;width:100%;">
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    <td id="email-banner" style="padding:32px 32px 0 32px;">
        
                
        
        
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                        <div id="email-action" style="padding: 0 0 8px 0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">
                                    <a class="user-hover" rel="apomelov" id="email_apomelov" href="http://jira.qos.ch/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=apomelov" style="color:#326ca6;">Alexey Pomelov</a>
     created <img src="http://jira.qos.ch/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug"> <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1045'>LOGBACK-1045</a>
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                        <div id="email-summary" style="font-size:16px;line-height:20px;padding:2px 0 16px 0;">
                <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1045'><strong>File header is not printed in files created after deletion the current log file.</strong></a>
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</tr>
<tr valign="top">
    <td id="email-fields" style="padding:0 32px 32px 32px;">
        <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="padding:0;text-align:left;width:100%;" width="100%">
            <tr valign="top">
                <td id="email-gutter" style="width:64px;white-space:nowrap;"></td>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Issue Type:</strong>
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                <img src="http://jira.qos.ch/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug">        Bug
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Assignee:</strong>
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                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="logback-dev@qos.ch" id="email_logback-dev@qos.ch" href="http://jira.qos.ch/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=logback-dev%40qos.ch" style="color:#326ca6;">Logback dev list</a>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Created:</strong>
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        29/Jan/15 11:15 AM
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Description:</strong>
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        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>I'm using rolling file appender with pattern layout and file header option. File header contains some static info about the application, its components, system environment, etc.<br/>
When the current log file is being deleted, logback creates the new one (it's great, log4j just silently stops logging any more), but there are no file header.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>In my practice cleaning all logs on fly is a common case for development process.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Simple config to reproduce:</p>
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<configuration>
    <appender name=<span class="code-quote">"application"</span> class=<span class="code-quote">"ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender"</span>>
        <file>application.log</file>
        <encoder class=<span class="code-quote">"ch.qos.logback.core.encoder.LayoutWrappingEncoder"</span>>
            <layout class=<span class="code-quote">"ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout"</span>>
                <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} - %msg%n</pattern>
                <fileHeader>SomefileHeader</fileHeader>
            </layout>
        </encoder>
    </appender>
    <root level=<span class="code-quote">"info"</span>>
        <appender-ref ref=<span class="code-quote">"application"</span> />
    </root>
</configuration>
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Simple application to run:</p>
<div class="code panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent">
<pre class="code-java">
<span class="code-keyword">public</span> class Main {
    <span class="code-keyword">private</span> <span class="code-keyword">final</span> <span class="code-keyword">static</span> Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Main.class);
    <span class="code-keyword">public</span> <span class="code-keyword">static</span> void main(<span class="code-object">String</span>[] args) <span class="code-keyword">throws</span> InterruptedException {
        <span class="code-keyword">while</span> (<span class="code-keyword">true</span>) {
            log.info(<span class="code-quote">"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"</span>);
            <span class="code-object">Thread</span>.sleep(1000);
        }
    }
}
</pre>
</div></div>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>To delete the current log file on windows I'm using the LockHunter utility (to kill the file handler without stopping the application).</p>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Project:</strong>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
        <a style="color:#326ca6;" href="http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK">logback</a>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Priority:</strong>
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                        <img src="http://jira.qos.ch/images/icons/priorities/major.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Major">                Major
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Reporter:</strong>
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                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="apomelov" id="email_apomelov" href="http://jira.qos.ch/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=apomelov" style="color:#326ca6;">Alexey Pomelov</a>
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