KB Article #176118

Rotation of the logs for 'WebServiceFrontEnd_start.log' or 'adminstration.log' files ?

Problem

-- Is it possible to rotate log files 'WebServiceFrontEnd_start.log' and 'administration.log' ?

Resolution

* 'WebServiceFrontEnd_start.log' cannot be rotated;
* It's only possible to change the rotation for administration.log in

Administration/deploy/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg

* the logs settings are:

$ grep log4j app/s45/Administration/deploy/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg
log4j.appender.backbone=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.backbone.MaxFileSize=1MB
log4j.appender.backbone.MaxBackupIndex=3
log4j.appender.backbone.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.backbone.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} | %-5.5p | %-16.16t | %-2.2X{bundle.id} - %-25.25X{bundle.name} - %-20.20X{bundle.version} | %-64.64C %4L | %m%n
#log4j.appender.backbone.file=../../Administration/log/administration.log
log4j.appender.backbone.file=log/administration.log
log4j.appender.backbone.append=true
log4j.appender.JobLogger=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.JobLogger.MaxFileSize=1MB
log4j.appender.JobLogger.MaxBackupIndex=3
log4j.appender.JobLogger.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.JobLogger.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} | %m%n
#log4j.appender.JobLogger.file=../../Administration/log/joblogger.log
log4j.appender.JobLogger.file=log/joblogger.log
log4j.appender.JobLogger.append=true
log4j.additivity.JobLogger=false
log4j.logger.JobLogger=error,JobLogger
log4j.logger.com.axway.backbone=info,backbone