Log4j FileAppender recreating deleted files

Question

I am using Log4j as logging framework in a project I am working on. I have the following situation: Log4j is configured to write the logs into a log file. At some point, thi

Answer 1

Try This one. I do not have a Linux machine right now, so I'm not sure if it can resolve the performance issue.

package wodong.test;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.log4j.FileAppender;
import org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent;

public class LastFileAppender extends FileAppender {
    @Override
    public void append(LoggingEvent event) {

        checkLogFileExist();
        super.append(event);
    }

    private void checkLogFileExist() {
        if (qw == null) {
            File logFile = new File(super.fileName);
            if (!logFile.exists()) {
                try {
                    logFile.createNewFile();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    System.out.println("Error while create new log file.");
                }
            }
        }
    }
}