log rotation - jboss.log

[umarsear]

I hope someone can help!

I manage a server that is using jboss as part of it's setup. I am very very new to jboss and know very little about it. The problem I have is that on the server there is a jboss.log file that keeps on filling up and eating up all the disk space.

I would like to manage these logs, using some thing like logrotate however can't seem to find any information on how to do this. If I simply rotate the log file, the jboss server just stop writing to the log file.

Help will be greatly appreciated.

[sviluppatorefico]

hi....you must to use this configuration in your $JBOSS_HOME/server/$SERVER_HOME/conf/log4j.xml

<appender name="FILE" class="org.jboss.logging.appender.DailyRollingFileAppender">
 <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
 <param name="File" value="${jboss.server.home.dir}/log/server.log"/>
 <param name="Append" value="false"/>

 <!-- Rollover at midnight each day -->
 <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd"/>

 <!-- Rollover at the top of each hour
 <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd-HH"/>
 -->

 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
 <!-- The default pattern: Date Priority [Category] Message\n -->
 <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%c] %m%n"/>

 <!-- The full pattern: Date MS Priority [Category] (Thread:NDC) Message\n
 <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5r %-5p [%c] (%t:%x) %m%n"/>
 -->
 </layout>
 </appender>

it is used by default in jboss 4.0.x