Folks,
I'd really like to use log4net for our error logging, but I'm having
two problems:
1) For certain cases, I'd like to log error and messages to text
files. I tried both the regular FileAppender, as well as the
RollingFileAppender, but both don't work exactly the way I'd like them
to.
What I'd like to achieve is logging into a file that I can specify the
file name format of: something like <prefix>-<date in my own custom
format>.log.
With the rolling file appender, I *almost* get it, but when I specify
"DateFormat=YYYYMMDD", then what I end up with are files such as
mylog_2006-09-01.log
mylog_2006-09-01.log2006-09-02
mylog_2006-09-01.log2006-09-03
and so on. *NOT* what I wanted, really ! I want the date string to be
in the NAME of the file, and *NOT* just appended to the extension of
the file. Because this way, I can't get all the files by specifying a
"*.log" dir mask......
Also, another trouble is that Windows services seem to "hold on" to
their log file, and when I start a Windows service on Sept 1th, 2006,
it will log into Service_2006-09-01.log and then lock that, and even
if more messages come in on the 2nd and 3rd of September, those will
still be written into the 2006-09-01.log file.
So my two main complaints / questions are:
* How do I tell log4net to format the file name according to
*MY* choice?
mylog_YYYY-MM-DD.log and nothing else
* How do I get Windows Services to "switch" to a new log file,
if a message appears
on Sept 2nd and use service_2006-09-02.log instead of
writing all into the file for Sept 1st?
2) The AdoNetAppender doesn't seem to work - period. What the hell is
up with that??
* I have a suitable table (I think) for the messages
* I configured the AdoNetAppender for *ALL* messages from the
root level down
* I specified the insert statement and the fields collection
in the log4net.config
Still, it just doesn't seem to log ANYTHING at all..... the
RollingFileAppender works just fine......
Any ideas??
Thanks!
Marc