Append date in RollingFileAppender

[Venkatesh Sandrasegaran]

Hi,

I want to use RollingFileAppender to rollover my log files when they reach a
particular size. But, instead of renaming the files "filename.log.1" I would
like them to be renamed "filename.log.date" (with the date appended). Is there any way this can be done? please post your suggestions

Thanks in Advance,
venky

[Ulf Dittmer]

I don't think RollingFileAppender can do that. But if you write a class that extends it, it shouldn't be hard to have it rename the file any way you want (the rollover method is public and can be overwritten).

[Paul Clapham]

The DailyRollingFileAppender does exactly that. And you wouldn't want the date to be part of the filename like that if you weren't rolling the log files daily, would you?

[Venkatesh Sandrasegaran]

Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
The DailyRollingFileAppender does exactly that. And you wouldn't want the date to be part of the filename like that if you weren't rolling the log files daily, would you?

Think you are getting things in a different way. i want DailyRollingFileAppender to work in a different way, i want to do the job exactly what it does with the condition on size of the file. DailyRollingFileAppender does this way, on the end of the day it rolls out as Application.log.2007-06-17 i want this rollout to happened when the size exceeds 250 MB and roll out as
Application.log.2007-06-17.1 , Application.log.2007-06-17.2 etc....

Thanks in advance,

[Venkatesh Sandrasegaran]

Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
I don't think RollingFileAppender can do that. But if you write a class that extends it, it shouldn't be hard to have it rename the file any way you want (the rollover method is public and can be overwritten).

Thanks for the reply, i will try and let you know...