[logback-user] Logback not rolling

[Robert Kuhar]

Every time this has happened to me the root cause has been a permissions
problem.  Do you have a means to tailing standard out/err to see if the
tell tale "permissions" problem is showing up there?

Also, if your app isn't running when the trigger is me, it is my
understanding and observation that the logs won't roll.


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Steve Cohen <scohen at javactivity.org> wrote:

> I have a logback configuration which specifies a daily rollover for a java
> swing application that is connected to a legacy backend and creates much
> log:
>
>         <appender name="LocalFile"
>                 class="ch.qos.logback.core.**rolling.RollingFileAppender">
>                 <File>${logdir}/local.log</**File>
>                 <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.**rolling.**
> TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
>                         <!-- daily rollover -->
>                         <fileNamePattern>${logdir}/**
> local.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</**fileNamePattern>
>                         <!-- keep 10 days' worth of history -->
>                         <maxHistory>10</maxHistory>
>                 </rollingPolicy>
>                 <encoder>
>                         <pattern>%d [%t] %-5p %c{2} - %m%n</pattern>
>                 </encoder>
>                 <filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.**
> filter.ThresholdFilter">
>                         <level>INFO</level>
>                 </filter>
>         </appender>
>
> I am finding in production that sometimes the logfile doesn't roll.  I am
> not sure whether the application is running at the moment when it's
> supposed to roll, if that matters.  Initially I suspected Windows 7
> permissions - a bloody nightmare - were responsible.  I initially thought
> that it always rolled correctly on some machines, but not on others.  But
> now I find a case on a single machine where rollovers happened on some days
> but not on others.
>
> We are using logback v.1,0.7 and slf4j version 1.6.5.  Yes, I know there
> are more recent versions but it would be a major hassle getting them
> deployed into our particular environment and I haven't seen this behavior
> in months of testing.
>
> Can anyone point me in a direction leading to the solving of this issue?
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