[LOG4J2-1087] Reload of RolloverStrategy doesn't work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Assignee: Ralph Goers
• Reporter: Benjamin Jaton
• Created: 28/Jul/15 11:55
• Updated: 21/Nov/15 21:49
• Resolved: 21/Nov/15 21:49

Description

I am using this configuration :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="DEBUG" monitorInterval="2">
  <Appenders>
    <RollingFile name="RollingFile" fileName="/tmp/test/app.log" filePattern="/tmp/test/app.log.%i">
      <PatternLayout>
        <Pattern>%d %p %c{1.} [%t] %m%n</Pattern>
      </PatternLayout>
      <Policies>
        <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100KB"/>
      </Policies>
      <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="5"/>
    </RollingFile>
  </Appenders>
  <Loggers>
    <Root level="info" includeLocation="false">
      <AppenderRef ref="RollingFile"/>
    </Root>
  </Loggers>
</Configuration>

I am changing the DefaultRolloverStrategy "max" attribute from 5 to 10.
I can see the reloading take place from the StatusLogger (full log attached):

DEBUG Starting configuration XmlConfiguration[location=/usr/local/apps/log4j2-test.xml]
(...)
DEBUG Found factory method [createStrategy]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy.createStrategy(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configuration).
2015-07-24 12:08:00,938 DEBUG Calling createStrategy on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy for element DefaultRolloverStrategy with params(name="10", name="null", name="null", name="null", Configuration(/usr/local/apps/log4j2-test.xml))

So log4j2 is seeing the changes, but there is still only 5 files produced 1->5.

(I made sure that I was producing enough log data)

If I change the message pattern, I see it change in the log file, but not the RolloverStrategy parameters.

Issue Links

• duplicates: LOG4J2-381 Changes in SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy has no effects when automatic reconfiguration is on.