How to rotate a log4j log manually

Question

I have log4j configured to rotate the log every day.

In special situations I would like to trigger an additional log rotation manually.

Is this possible - an

Answer 1

If you're keeping track of your appenders, you could call

https://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/RollingFileAppender.html#rollOver()

That should do it. I guess it's also possible to iterate through all appenders you can find starting from root level - just make sure you keep track of which appenders you already rolled.