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Jon Hanson edited comment on LOG4J2-2517 at 12/5/18 6:38 PM: ------------------------------------------------------------- Well, the behaviour is different at least... What I now see is: # The existing file *does* get renamed. # The filename doesn't respect my rolling file pattern (logs/orchestrator-%d\{MM-dd-yy-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz): ## The actual filename is orchestrator-09-25-18-18-40-48-1.log (not sure why). ## It isn't compressed. That may be a config error on my behalf - will check. # But, *the rolled file is empty*. I.e. it seems to be clearing out the existing file before it rolls it. was (Author: jonhanson): Well, the behaviour is different at least... What I see now is: # The existing file does get renamed. # The filename doesn;t respect my rolling file pattern (logs/orchestrator-%d\{MM-dd-yy-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz): ## The actual filename is orchestrator-09-25-18-18-40-48-1.log (not sure why). ## It isn't compressed. That may be a config error on my behalf - will check. # But, the rolled file is empty. I.e. it seems to be clearing out the existing file before it rolls it. > RollingFileManager OnStartupTriggeringPolicy never rolls the file on startup > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LOG4J2-2517 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2517 > Project: Log4j 2 > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Appenders > Affects Versions: 2.11.1 > Reporter: Jon Hanson > Priority: Minor > Attachments: log4j2.json > > > I'm trying to get log4j2 (V2.11.1) to roll the existing log file at startup > before it starts logging into a new file. My config is atached to the jira. > I'm using a RollingFileManager with a OnStartupTriggeringPolicy with > minSize=0, which, according to the documentation should be sufficient. > However what i'm finding is that at startup, the > {{OnStartupTriggeringPolicy}} class {{initialize}} method compares the > timestamp of the log file to the JVM startup, and if the log file time is > after the start-up time then it won't roll the file. If I step through the > code then I see that at the point that check is made the file time is always > after the JVM start time, because log4j2 appears to have already opened the > file for writing at that point. > More info here: > [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53632091/log4j2-rollingfilemanager-onstartuptriggeringpolicy-never-rolls-the-file-on-star] > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)