We are using logback version 0.9.29, and if the log file is accidently deleted then logback stops logging and it needs app server restart to resume logging.

is there anything I am missing?? Or is this the expected behaviour?

I have pasted my configuration below.

Regards,

Sumit

<configuration scan="true">

        <contextName>MY_APP</contextName>

        <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">

                <!-- encoders are assigned the type

                         ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder by default -->

                <encoder>

                        <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %contextName %logger [%5level] %msg%n</pattern>

                </encoder>

                <filter></filter>

        </appender>

        <!-- Size and time based archiving -->

        <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">

                <file>${MY_HOME}/logs/logfile.log</file>

                <triggeringPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy">

                        <maxFileSize>5MB</maxFileSize>

                </triggeringPolicy>

                <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.FixedWindowRollingPolicy">

                        <fileNamePattern>${MY_HOME}/logs/logfile-%i.log</fileNamePattern>

                        <minIndex>1</minIndex>

                        <maxIndex>3</maxIndex>

                </rollingPolicy>

                <encoder>

                        <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %logger %5level - %msg%n</pattern>

                </encoder>

        </appender>

         <logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN" additivity="false">

                <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>

        </logger>

        <!-- For all other loggers in the system, output to console -->

        <root level="WARN">

                <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />

        </root>

</configuration>