Log4j2 RollingFile doesn't work when using ${sys:jboss.server.log.dir}

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Everything works fine when I have a rolling file configured as so:

RollingFile name="RollingFileAppender" fileName="/applicationLogs/CTMSApplicationService-${hostName}.log" filePattern="/applicationLogs/CTMSApplicationService-${hostName}-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log"

BUT as soon as I use the ${sys:jboss.server.log.dir} for the "root" of my log location the primary log gets created but nothing ever rolls. The log file just gets appended to:

RollingFile name="RollingFileAppender" fileName="${sys:jboss.server.log.dir}/CTMSApplicationService-${hostName}.log" filePattern="${sys:jboss.server.log.dir}/CTMSApplicationService-${hostName}-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log">

The value of ${sys:jboss.server.log.dir}="E:\Wildfly-8.1.0.Final\standalone\log"

Is it because the fileName can handle the Winblows "E:\" and the filePattern can not?

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log4j2wildfly-8rollingfileappender
That looks/smells like it! Thanks so much. For now "../standalone/log/<filename>" works just fine and those locations aren't going to change anytime soon....it just eats at the purist in me. ...wait a second... OK; now I'm over it. Apparently I'm far less of a purist than I led myself to believe. (it is more important to get it done!) Thank you for directing me to this! – RussellJNile

1 Answers

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This may be caused by this issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-829 This is fixed in the master branch and will be included in the upcoming 2.1 release.