Re: [log4perl-devel] Log::Dispatch::FileRotate filename suffix

[Robert J. <yad...@sn...>]

At 03:06 PM 2/15/2007, John ORourke wrote:
>It has this nifty feature built in, no need to write more code - see below....
>[snip]
>
> >From my log4perl.conf file:
>
>log4perl.logger.DataSite = DEBUG, DebugLog
>log4perl.appender.DebugLog = Log::Dispatch::FileRotate
>log4perl.appender.DebugLog.min_level=debug
>log4perl.appender.DebugLog.max=10
>log4perl.appender.DebugLog.DatePattern=yyyy-MM-dd
>log4perl.appender.DebugLog.TZ=UTC
>log4perl.appender.DebugLog.filename=/tmp/debug_log
>log4perl.appender.DebugLog.mode=append
>log4perl.appender.DebugLog.layout=PatternLayout
>log4perl.appender.DebugLog.layout.ConversionPattern =[%d] [%P] %M(%p) - %m%n
>
>
>
>The bit you want is DatePattern - it sets the pattern for the 
>rotated files - in your case:
>
>DatePattern=yyyyMMdd
>
>When the evaluated version of that changes, it will do the rename 
>and start a new file.

Are you sure?  The documentation for the module says this:
         "We don't use DatePattern to define the extension of the log 
file though."

The DatePattern seems to define *when to rotate*, and does not affect 
the file extension.  Are you saying you have FileRotate working so 
that it renames using the DatePattern?  Neither the docs nor the code 
(which I posted earlier) seem to support that...


Rob