[Log4cplus-devel] rotate after logging to wrong file?

[Jeremy C. R. <re...@re...>]

I noticed that I had a few processes still with open log files and when 
they logged they logged to the old log file instead of new file.
This means that an admin may overlook it or, even worse, it may be 
rotated and lost.

Is this a feature?

Here is a workaround that seems to work for me:

--- ./src/fileappender.cxx.orig	2013-06-07 11:43:19.000000000 -0500
+++ ./src/fileappender.cxx	2013-06-07 11:45:06.000000000 -0500
@@ -488,11 +488,13 @@
 void
 RollingFileAppender::append(const spi::InternalLoggingEvent& event)
 {
-    FileAppender::append(event);
 
+    // Rotate log file if needed before appending to it.
     if(out.tellp() > maxFileSize) {
         rollover(true);
     }
+
+    FileAppender::append(event);
 }
 

This is with BIND10 which has many logging processes using a single 
log4cplus configuration. For information, see
http://bind10.isc.org/ticket/1622#comment:34
http://bind10.isc.org/ticket/2988

  Jeremy C. Reed

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