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                                    <a class="user-hover" rel="emedves" id="email_emedves" href="http://jira.qos.ch/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=emedves" style="color:#326ca6;">Enrico Medves</a>
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                <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1066'><strong>cannot close files with SiftingAppender</strong></a>
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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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        23/Apr/15 10:46 AM
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        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>I'm using SiftingAppender in my application to log processes in different files. Here is my appender:</p>
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<span class="code-tag"><property scope=<span class="code-quote">"context"</span> name=<span class="code-quote">"PROCESS_LOG_HOME"</span> value=<span class="code-quote">"processLogs"</span> /></span>
  
        <span class="code-tag"><appender name=<span class="code-quote">"PROCESS_LOGGER"</span> class=<span class="code-quote">"ch.qos.logback.classic.sift.SiftingAppender"</span>></span>
 
                <span class="code-tag"><timeout></span>1 minute<span class="code-tag"></timeout></span>
                
                <span class="code-tag"><discriminator></span>
                        <span class="code-tag"><key></span>processLogName<span class="code-tag"></key></span>
                        <span class="code-tag"><defaultValue></span>defaultLog<span class="code-tag"></defaultValue></span>
                <span class="code-tag"></discriminator></span>
 
                <span class="code-tag"><sift></span>
 
                  <span class="code-tag"><appender name=<span class="code-quote">"PROCESS-LOGGER-${processLogName}"</span> class=<span class="code-quote">"ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender"</span>></span>
                                <span class="code-tag"><file></span>${PROCESS_LOG_HOME}/${processLogName}.log<span class="code-tag"></file></span>
         
                                <span class="code-tag"><encoder class=<span class="code-quote">"ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder"</span>></span>
                                        <span class="code-tag"><Pattern></span>
                                                %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5level - %msg%n
                                        <span class="code-tag"></Pattern></span>
                                <span class="code-tag"></encoder></span>
         
                                <span class="code-tag"><rollingPolicy class=<span class="code-quote">"ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy"</span>></span>
                                        <span class="code-tag"><FileNamePattern></span>${PROCESS_LOG_HOME}/${processLogName}%d.log<span class="code-tag"></FileNamePattern></span>
                                        <span class="code-tag"><span class="code-comment"><!-- keep 7 days worth of history --></span></span>
                                        <span class="code-tag"><MaxHistory></span>7<span class="code-tag"></MaxHistory></span>
                                <span class="code-tag"></rollingPolicy></span>
         
                        <span class="code-tag"></appender></span>
 
                <span class="code-tag"></sift></span>
        <span class="code-tag"></appender></span>
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>In the tasks componing my processes, I get a logger through a static method that sets the MDC variable and then returns the logger, here is the code: </p>
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<span class="code-keyword">import</span> org.slf4j.Logger;
<span class="code-keyword">import</span> org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
<span class="code-keyword">import</span> org.slf4j.MDC;

<span class="code-keyword">public</span> class myClass{

        <span class="code-keyword">public</span> <span class="code-keyword">static</span> Logger getProcessLogger(Exchange exchange, <span class="code-object">String</span> defaultFileName) {
                initMDCContext(exchange, defaultFileName); <span class="code-comment">//here MDC.put() is called
</span>           Logger processLogger = LoggerFactory
                                .getLogger(<span class="code-quote">"myLoggerName"</span>);
                <span class="code-keyword">return</span> processLogger;
        }
}
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>In the final task of my processes I use the finalize_session_marker:</p>
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} <span class="code-keyword">finally</span> {
    Logger processLogger = myClass.getProcessLogger(exchange,<span class="code-quote">"someDefaultString"</span>);
    processLogger.info(ClassicConstants.FINALIZE_SESSION_MARKER, <span class="code-quote">"About to end the process"</span>);
}
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>All these tasks write correctly in the same file, if they are part of the same process, and at the end of every log i see the row:</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>2015-04-23 09:46:25 INFO  - About to end the process</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>However the files corresponding my processes are still locked until i stop my application. This means neither the default <timeout>1 minute</timeout> nor ClassicConstants.FINALIZE_SESSION_MARKER are working.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>I'm quite new to logback so i don't know what to do to solve this issue.</p>
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        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Windows 7</p>
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        <a style="color:#326ca6;" href="http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK">logback</a>
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                    siftingAppender
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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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                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="emedves" id="email_emedves" href="http://jira.qos.ch/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=emedves" style="color:#326ca6;">Enrico Medves</a>
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