hi everyone,


i faced with a rather weird outcome of log4j.

first of all to load preface information,

i'm using apache2.2 and load balanced 2 tomcat version 6
called tomcat1 & tomcat2 respectively. i made the tomcat1 & 2

point to a single webapp directory.



rough diagram looks like this:



     Apache2.2

          |

     ---------

     |          |

tomcat1 tomcat2

     |               |

     -------------

               |

          webapps



as depicted above, any request send from apache to tomcat1 and

tomcat2 will use the same copy of servlet within the
webapps/WEB-INF/classes dir. i set the log file to
eg.
"/log/mylog.log". the log4j settings is as below.



--------------------------------

log4j.rootLogger =DEBUG,DAILY

log4j.appender.DAILY=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender

log4j.appender.DAILY.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout

log4j.appender.DAILY.File=/log/mylog.log

log4j.appender.DAILY.Append=true



log4j.appender.DAILY.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd-HH

log4j.appender.DAILY.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p [%t] %-17c{2} %3x - %m%n

based on the setting above, it should log every top hour
per file.


There are 2 problems i'm facing now:

1.

It logs every hour as expected. But the name of the file

where hour indicated differently than the contents being log.


eg. filename is "mylog.log.2008-04-20-13" indicate 1pm.

but the contents inside logs 2pm onwards.




2.

Log4j normally rollover and copy a new past hour to a new
file. Leaving the default mylog.log as the current
logging data before rollover and copy to another file
(that is, currently logging 2pm onwards). But i saw it

logging both files at the same time in "mylog.log" and
"mylog.log.2008-04-20-13". The file "mylog.log" logging 2pm onwards

which is correct but it still log 2pm onwards
/append the same information to "mylog.log.2008-04-20-13".



has anyone ever come across any of this?

did i not do correctly on the log settings?



please, i urge anyone who encountered this before to provide me a pointer. Thanks.



Wesley    <<Less