RE: fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setFileNamePattern

Hey thanks. I can't seem to find a similar set of extras for log4net. Is
there a similar file name patter manipulator for log4net somewhere?

Cheers, Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:hoju <at> visi.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:29 AM
To: Log4J Users List
Subject: Re: fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setFileNamePattern

See the rolling package in the Log4j "extras" companion...

http://logging.apache.org/log4j/companions/extras/index.html

Jake

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:04:49 -0700
  "Eric Kolotyluk" <eric.kolotyluk <at> kodak.com> wrote:
> One of the nice features I like in log4j 1.3 is
>FixedWindowRollingPolicy#setFileNamePattern();
> 
> The log4j default rolling pattern looks like mylog.log1, mylog.log2,
...
> This makes it difficult for desktops to associate the file-type with
> application used for opening the log file for viewing so I like to use
> 
>FixedWindowRollingPolicy fixedWindowRollingPolicy = new
>FixedWindowRollingPolicy();
> fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setFileNamePattern("mylog%i.log");
> fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setMaxIndex(9);
> fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setMinIndex(0);
> 
> This way I only have to associate the file suffix '.log' once, with my
> favorite log file editor, and not for each of '.log1' '.log2' etc.
> 
> It would be really nice to do this in log4j 1.2. Are there any plans
to
> add this to the 1.2 stream?
> 
> Cheers, Eric
> 
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