[logback-user] Handling file access errors

[David Roussel]

Gabriel,

You can create your own appender which, on error, can signal your application to stop. 

David

> On 30 Sep 2013, at 20:40, Gabriel Soto <gabsoto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Good afternoon,
> 
> We are using Logback in a security sensitive application.
> 
> The logging configuration normally includes a RollingFileAppender but we have the following requirement: If at any time a write to the log fails (due to a full disk, file permissions, etc.) the application must halt immediately, because no logs means no audit data, and that constitutes a high security risk.
> 
> Now, the usual behavior when Logback can't write to the file is to log the error and continue. What would be the right way to handle this?
> 
> Thank you,
> Gabriel
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