[logback-user] Problems with delete

[Chris Pratt]

Or put the file in the user's home directory with something like
${user.home}
  (*Chris*)


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:58 PM, David Roussel
<nabble at diroussel.xsmail.com>wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Can you put the user name in the file name so each user has a separate set
> if files?
>
> David
>
> On 6 Jun 2013, at 18:39, Steve Cohen <scohen at javactivity.org> wrote:
>
> > My previous thread showed me being successfully guided to a solution to
> rollover problems, by removing the File element of the rolling policy to
> avoid renaming issues.
> >
> > These problems surfaced in my instance due the following operational
> environment:
> >
> > 1) A GUI application running under Windows, not a server-side
> application.
> >
> > 2) Application is launched from time to time by different users.  This
> leads to file-ownership issues preventing rename operation.
> >
> > Similar problems occur in the delete scenario based on the <maxHistory>
> element.
> >
> > But in this case, there is no workaround for deletion
> >
> > Also I wonder about this:
> >
> > TimeBasedArchiveRemover.cleanByPeriodOffset() calls
> java.io.File.delete().
> >
> > File.delete() returns a boolean which is not checked in
> cleanByPeriodOffset().  It also throws a SecurityException (a
> RuntimeException) which isn't checked for.  I'm not sure where this would
> be caught but I'm guessing it isn't the case here or we would have more
> catastrophic failures, so I suppose it's just returning false.
> >
> > Should logback do something about this?  It's not clear because it's not
> clear what it could do.  There is no alternative as in the case of renaming.
> >
> > Is there any solution available other than setting the directory so that
> every user has full rights to it?  Mere write access is not enough in the
> Windows permissions scheme.
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