[logback-user] problems with TimeBasedRollingPolicy

[David Roussel]

Yes it rolls on the first message. To force rolling, log a message. 

On 28 Jun 2011, at 13:13, Leon Rosenberg <rosenberg.leon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have following logback rolling file appender configuration:
> 
> 
>    <appender name="DWHTextToolActionLogger"
>        class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
>        <file>${user.home}/data/inbound/csi/text_approval/xxx_text_approval.csv</file>
>        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
>            <fileNamePattern>${user.home}/data/inbound/csi/text_approval/xxx_text_approval_%d{yyyy_MM_dd}.csv.gz</fileNamePattern>
>            <maxHistory>100</maxHistory>
>        </rollingPolicy>
>        <encoder>
>            <pattern>%m%n</pattern>
>        </encoder>
>    </appender>
> 
>    <logger name="DWHTextToolActionLogger" additivity="false">
>        <level value="INFO" />
>        <appender-ref ref="DWHTextToolActionLogger" />
>    </logger>
> 
> I would expect the log file to roll nightly, however, I only see
> following files:
> 
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 236K Jun 28 14:08 xxx_text_approval.csv
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx  39K Jun 22 08:21 xxx_text_approval_2011_06_21.csv.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx  32K Jun 23 08:18 xxx_text_approval_2011_06_22.csv.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx  35K Jun 24 07:52 xxx_text_approval_2011_06_23.csv.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx  26K Jun 25 07:43 xxx_text_approval_2011_06_24.csv.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx  41K Jun 26 07:50 xxx_text_approval_2011_06_25.csv.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx  28K Jun 27 07:44 xxx_text_approval_2011_06_26.csv.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx  57K Jun 28 08:12 xxx_text_approval_2011_06_27.csv.gz
> 
> Is it misconfigured, or does the rolling actually happens at the first
> log message in the morning?
> If it's action based, how can i configure rolling to be triggered
> @midnight no matter how empty or full the log is?
> 
> regards
> Leon
> 
> p.s.
> version:
>                             <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
>                                <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
>                                <version>0.9.28</version>
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