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