How does RollingFileAppender work with log4j2?

Question

I\'m use to RollingFileAppender on normal log4j. Now I\'m switching to log4j2, and cannot get the appender to work.

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Answer 1

I used log4j2 version 2.0, in some cases it throws error if you do not set any date in file pattern, in this case you can use some thing like below:

      <RollingFile name="MyFile" fileName="d:/log/bsi/admin/total/totalLog.log"
            filePattern="d:/log/totalLog-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log">
            <PatternLayout>
                <Pattern>%d %p %c [%t] %m%n</Pattern>
            </PatternLayout>
            <Policies>
                <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
                <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="1 MB"/>
            </Policies>
            <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="2000"/>
        </RollingFile>

Answer 2

The RollingFile tag is missing a filePattern attribute.

<RollingFile name="ROLLING" 
             fileName="c:/logsroll.log"
             filePattern="c:/logsroll-%i.log">