[logback-user] Log Rotation Fails on Windows if Using JNDI

[ceki]

If you have ContextJNDISelector as discussed previously, you must use
prudent mode. With ContextJNDISelector , prudent mode is not optional
but mandatory.

You could abandon ContextJNDISelector and replace it with a servlet
filter which inserts the name of the application into the MDC. An even
better solution would be to write a custom converter, say
JNDIPropertyConverter which would lookup the application name from
JNDI and output the value found. See the docs on creating a custom
converter [1] for details. From what we discussed thus far, I think
JNDIPropertyConverter is your best bet yet.

[1] http://logback.qos.ch/manual/layouts.html#customConversionSpecifier
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On 03/11/2011 10:23 PM, Scott Dudley wrote:
>
> I'm using FixedWindowRollingPolicy and the doc says that prudent mode
> isn't supported with FixedWindowRollingPolicy
> (http://logback.qos.ch/manual/appenders.html#RollingFileAppender).
>
> On 11/03/2011 02:11 PM, ceki wrote:
>> On 03/11/2011 10:07 PM, ceki wrote:
>>> On 03/11/2011 10:02 PM, Scott Dudley wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So clarify for me...
>>>>
>>>> If I have only one set of classes loaded by the servlet engine (Tomcat)
>>>> and only one logback.xml file shared among all applications, how do I
>>>> have multiple appenders?
>>>
>>> Sorry, you are right. If logback is loaded only once, then each appender
>>> mentioned in the config file will be loaded once. No need for prudent
>>> mode in this case.
>>
>> Stupid me. ContextJNDISelector will cause logback-classic to be loaded
>> multiple times. If the logback-classic instances share the same config
>> file, then you will have multiple appender instances writing to the
>> same file => prudent mode needs to be enabled.
>>
>>
>
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> Scott Dudley
> Senior Developer