append to server.log in jboss-as-7.1.1.Final - and rotate daily

[didds]

Hi - this should be an easy one but I've googled to no benefit...

I have a fairly vanilla install of jboss-as-7.1.1.Final - but when I restart the service it overwrites the server.log

I need to

1) append rather than overwrite

2) rotate daily with the date appeneded to the logname (and preferably zipped).

in 4.2.3 I am told this was done by .../conf/jboss-log4j.xml but I can't find anything that suggests what I need to do for jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.

dummy stylee instructions appreciated :-)

TIA

Ian

[didds]

wow...  I thought that must be an easy one!

maybe it can't be done?

didds

[jcordes]

Hi Ian,

You can set this up via the JBoss CLI just like this (assuming you want to have logging per application):

/subsystem=logging/periodic-rotating-file-handler=your-app:add(autoflush=true,suffix=.yyyy-MM-dd,formatter="%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%c] (%t) %s%E%n", file={path=your-app.log,relative-to=jboss.server.log.dir}, append=true)

/subsystem=logging/logger=com.yourcompany.your-app:add(level=DEBUG,handlers={your-app})

As an alternative you can have a look at standalone.xml / domain.xml in the logging subsystem and modify as needed.

Hope that helps,

Jochen

[jamezp]

You just need to set the append attribute. You can do it via CLI or the web console.

CLI looks like this:

$JBOSS_HOME/bin/jboss-cli.sh --connect "/subsystem=logging/periodic-rotating-file-handler=FILE:write-attribute(name=append,value=true)"

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James R. Perkins