Filename with date in Log4j

Question

I\'m trying to append the current date to the log4j log file. So it would be something like this:

myApp-2011-01-07.log

The thing is that I do not want to us

Answer 1

Try setting this in your log4j.properties file:

log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.R.File=example.log

much more information can be found here http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/DailyRollingFileAppender.html