Log File Rotation
An application server can generate large numbers of log messages,
so if no action is taken, log files can grow unmanageably large.
Log file rotation solves this problem by starting a
new log file at fixed intervals. You can either use a third party log
rotation program or else set up trace.properties
so
that the Content Engine starts logging to a new file periodically. You can
define the period between log files either by time (every 24 hours, for
example) or by data volume (every x
kilobytes).
You can, for example, change the log file once a day by replacing
this line in the default trace.properties
:
log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
with this:
log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.FILE.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd