Hello

did anyone here develop some RollingFileAppender for LOGBack that works with a cron?

The customer I work for has an old bugged appender for LOG4J that tries to do that and has the following configuration:

log4j.appender.RollingFileCron=com.removed.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.RollingFileCron.File=/var/log/removed/error.log
log4j.appender.RollingFileCron.layout=org.apache.removed.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.RollingFileCron.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %m%n
log4j.appender.RollingFileCron.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm
log4j.appender.RollingFileCron.CronPattern=*/5 * * * *

I’m not allowed use the library in my personal “test” projects, and it’s bugged...

Key points are:

- It can roll files every 5 minutes, not just what the SimpleDateFormat offers.

- It’ll roll even without logging activity (even empty files are rolled, to prove that the app’s logging is still working) !

If there’s anything that does that, please let me know, thank you very much.

Best regards

Andrew Bourgeois