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log4perl seems not to work as advertised

zatlas1
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Mar 19, 2012, 3:10 PM

Post #1 of 5 (8467 views)

log4perl seems not to work as advertised	Can't Post

Hi All

I have this sample program:

Code

  
 
use strict;  
use warnings; 
use Log::Dispatch::FileRotate;  
use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy);   
my $config = $ENV{'CONFIGPATH'}; 
Log::Log4perl::init( "$config$\/testRotate\.conf" );  
my $logger = Log::Log4perl->get_logger;   
for (my $i = 1; $i<10000000;$i++) 
{ 
 $logger->info ("TESTING ROTATE $i for 10,000,000 times"); 
}

and this config file:

# testRotate-logger.conf
log4perl.rootLogger = INFO, AE
log4perl.appender.AE = Log::Dispatch::FileRotate

log_dir = /mydir/logs/
log4perl.appender.AE.filename = ${log_dir}/testRotate.log
log4perl.appender.AE.mode = append
log4perl.appender.AE.Logfile.max = 5
log4perl.appender.AE.Logfile.size = 1000000
log4perl.appender.AE.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.AE.layout.ConversionPattern = %d %p %m %n

The Logfile.max and Logfile.size just don't work and the package seems to ignore them and use 2 files and 10000000 size

any idea

BillKSmith
Veteran

Mar 19, 2012, 4:39 PM

Post #2 of 5 (8465 views)

Re: [zatlas1] log4perl seems not to work as advertised [In reply to]	Can't Post

Quote

Code

Log::Log4perl::init( "$config$\/testRotate\.conf" );

This statement probably produces a run-time warning. Perl tries to form the file name by concatening the contents of the scalar variable $config (which does not exist) with the special variable $\ and then with '/testRotate.conf'

I am not sure what you intend. You must fix the quotes and escapes to specify what you really mean.
Good Luck,
Bill

zatlas1
User

Mar 20, 2012, 7:12 AM

Post #3 of 5 (8448 views)

Re: [BillKSmith] log4perl seems not to work as advertised [In reply to]	Can't Post

$config actually exists and is correct

my $config = $ENV{'CONFIGPATH'};

the string

$\/testRotate\.conf

is obviously a mistake (I left a code from previous attempt to resolve the issue) so the correct line is:
Log::Log4perl::init( "$config\/testRotate\.conf" );

which corretly points to the configuration file above.

BTW, I tried with and without the 'easy' option, with and without the 'INFO' instead of $logger->info, etc. None changed the behavior of ignoring the 'size' and 'max' attributes in the configuration file.

log4perl still appears not to be working as advertised!!!

Thanks

ZA

(This post was edited by zatlas1 on Mar 20, 2012, 7:20 AM)

BillKSmith
Veteran

Mar 20, 2012, 11:18 AM

Post #4 of 5 (8428 views)

Re: [zatlas1] log4perl seems not to work as advertised [In reply to]	Can't Post

Sorry, I cannot help with the module. The filename looked wrong so I wrote a tiny script to confirm its behavior. ($config did not exist in my script and I forgot to check in the original).
Good Luck,
Bill

zatlas1
User

Mar 22, 2012, 11:24 AM

Post #5 of 5 (8398 views)

Re: [BillKSmith] log4perl seems not to work as advertised [In reply to]	Can't Post

Error resolved:

log4perl.appender.AE.max = 5
log4perl.appender.AE.size = 1000000

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