How can I make log4j reopen log files periodically (logrotate)

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  •  13-12-2019
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Question

My sysadmin has been "encouraging" me to fix our web application logs to play nicely with logrotate. The problem is that after logrotate works on a file the application stops logging. Is there a way to configure log4j to reopen log files after this happens?

This comment explains the general problem but doesn't provide a solution for log4j: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6514233/201748

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Solution

I have still to test it, but the copytruncate option of logrotate should do.

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