Log4j dailyrollingfileappender file issues

Question

We are encountering a peculiar problem. Scenario: We have 3 servers which with multiple instances of a component all writing transactional log to a single log file.We use lo

Answer 1

We ran into the same problem. The underlying problem is that there is no way to coordinate access to log file across multiple processes (in this case running on multiple servers.) This means all sorts of bad things happen: logs gets overwritten, files fail to roll etc...

My suggestion to you is to have each server write to a separate file, and then merge them in a post processing job.