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

"Mark Knoop" <mar...@bt...> wrote:

> Apologies if this is covered somewhere already.

> I have had some fun trying to rotate a log4perl log file.

> I tried switch_file with Log4perl::Dispatch::File and
> Log4perl::Appender::File but there doesn't seem to be a switch_file
> method present for either

Sorry, that's a documentation bug. Log4perl::Appender::File has a
file_switch() method (the docs said "switch_file()", I've corrected it
in 0.52).

> so I decided to use
> Log::Dispatch::FileRotate instead but it seems it is not present in
> the http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm repository.

Log::Dispatch::FileRotate is a separate module on CPAN, not bundled with
Log4perl, try

    ppm> install Log-Dispatch-FileRotate

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
m...@pe...