Re: [log4perl-devel] Altering of logfile from configuration in runtime.

[Mike S. <m...@pe...>]

Lee Carmichael wrote on 3/25/2004, 8:42 AM:

 > I am trying to update a logfile from the configuration
 > file at run time. I would really like to get the
 > current appender then alter the logfile name with out
 > completly creating a new appender. I want to use the
 > configuration file so that ops people can control most
 > of the behavior of the app. Is this possible? Am I
 > being clear?

If you're loading the config file with init_and_watch(), you could 
simply adapt the file appender's logfile setting in the config file and 
have L4P reload the configuration, either via polling or a signal. Make 
sure you're using autoflush, though, otherwise you might lose messages 
not flushed yet at re-init time.

Another way of accomplishing the same thing would be adding a signal 
handler to your application, and using the switch_file method of the 
file appender, take the test case in t/026FileApp.t as an example.

--
-- Mike
Mike Schilli
m...@pe...