[LOG4J2-755] Log File not rollover in windows tomcat

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: Appenders
• Labels: Rollover

Environment

Windows 7, JDK 1.6, tomcat 7.0.55

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: dingli
• Created: 31/Jul/14 07:01
• Updated: 02/Oct/14 11:38
• Resolved: 02/Oct/14 11:38

Description

<RollingFile name="MyFile" filename="${web:rootDir}/WEB-INF/log/sample.log" filePattern="${web:rootDir}/WEB-INF/log/sample.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}">
    			 <PatternLayout pattern="[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS}] %t %p %c - %m%n"/>
    			 <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
  </RollingFile>

the log file can be created, but can't be rollover next day
the same config works fine in Linux

in log4j2 trace:

2014-07-31 23:30:34,189 TRACE PatternProcessor.getNextTime returning 2014/08/01-00:00:00.000, nextFileTime=2014/07/31-00:00:00.000, prevFileTime=2014/07/30-00:00:00.000, current=2014/07/31-23:30:34.188, freq=DAILY
2014-07-31 23:30:34,194 TRACE DefaultRolloverStrategy.purge() took 0.002823926 seconds
2014-07-31 23:30:34,223 DEBUG RollingFileManager executing synchronous FileRenameAction[D:\java\tomcat7\webapps\sample\WEB-INF\log\sample.log to D:java       omcat7webappssample\WEB-INF\log\sample.log.2014-07-30, renameEmptyFiles=false]
2014-07-31 23:30:34,228 ERROR Unable to create directory D:\java\tomcat7\bin\java       omcat7webappssample\WEB-INF\log

it seems the "\" in path be treated as escape char ?

Issue Links

• duplicates: LOG4J2-829 Error replace slash in pattern file when rolling file appender