Configuring RollingFileAppender in log4j

Question

I\'m working on a set of web services and we\'d like to have a daily rotated log.

I\'m trying to get org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender from t

Answer 1

Update: at least as early as 2013 (see Mubashar's comment) this started working.

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According to Log4jXmlFormat you cannot configure it with log4j.properties, but only using the XML config format:

Note that TimeBasedRollingPolicy can only be configured with xml, not log4j.properties

Unfortunately, the example log4j.xml they provide doesn't work either:

log4j:ERROR Parsing error on line 14 and column 76
log4j:ERROR Element type "rollingPolicy" must be declared.
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log4j:WARN Please set a rolling policy for the RollingFileAppender named 'FILE'