Re: Logging truncates the file at noon

Baron, we had hit this exact same problem; the response I got at the
time was that this was a known bug in the 1.2.0 beta 8 version.  Using
a more recent (CVS) version resolved the issue (using the same config
file).


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:36:57 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Baron
Schwartz <baron@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've searched Google and the Eyebrowse for this and can't find anything
> relevant (EyeBrowse seems to have a lot of issues -- about half the links
> I click on just lead to a stacktrace).  I'm not sure if this is an issue
> with log4net or my configuration.  Any pointers are much appreciated.
> 
> Problem: my log files are rolled daily, but every day at noon the existing
> data is blanked out of the log (the file is truncated).  The effect is
> that when I look at yesterday's file, I only see information for yesterday
> after noon, not before noon.  I have actually watched this happen; the
> first statement that writes to the file after noon truncates everything
> already in the file.
> 
> My version: 1.2.0.30714.  I'm on Windows, MS.NET Framework v1.1.4322 using
> Visual Studio 2003 and linking to the pre-built DLL from SourceForge.
> 
> Sample of my App.config file:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <configuration>
>     <configSections>
>         <section name="log4net"
> type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
>     </configSections>
>     <log4net>
>         <appender name="FileAppender"
> type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
>             <file value="//server/share$/log/log-" />
>             <appendToFile value="true" />
>             <datePattern value="yyyy-MM-dd.\\tx\\t" />
>             <rollingStyle value="Date" />
>             <staticLogFileName value="false" />
>             <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
>                 <conversionPattern value="%-5p %-20t %d %c line %L%n
> %m%n" />
>             </layout>
>         </appender>
>         <root>
>             <level value="INFO" />
>             <appender-ref ref="FileAppender" />
>         </root>
>     </log4net>
> 
> 


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