Re: Can I have time stamp in log file name?

AFAICT, the closest to what you are
looking for would be the DailyRolingFileAppender - it automatically renames
old example.log to example.log.date format at midnight, when the new day
file is created.

But, then there are few (significant)
catches - there is no option to automatically delete old files (really
a pain). Also, it has been deprecated in log4j (in favor of using strategy
design pattern, I believe), so I guess it will go away in log4cxx as well.

Alex

"Ambarish Mitra" <ambarish_mitra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on 02/21/2005 08:07:49 AM:

> Hi,
> 
> Can I have time stamp in log file name?
> 
> To elaborate, if my entries in the property files are:
> ...
> log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
> log4j.appender.R.File=../logs/example.log
> ..
> 
> Now, I want that instead of log file name: example.log, I want the
name as
> example.log.<time> of creation, is there any way to accomplish
this?
> 
> -Ambarish.
> 
> 
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