UPDATE:
The problem was caused by the version of Log-Dispatch-FileRotate I was using. Version 1.11 does not rotate files as expected. The more recent 1.19 version does not have that problem. (When I originally started working with Log-Dispatch-FileRotate it was not available on ActiveState's PPM repository, so I downloaded and installed it from Log4perl's SourceForge repository.)



Good morning!

I am writing a script that writes to log files that are rotated every day (maximum of 8). I am using Log::Log4perl and Log::Dispatch::FileRotate and I am running into some problems (or possibly misunderstandings?).

I am attempting to rotate the log files everyday with a date pattern string of yyyy-MM-dd. This works properly for scripts that run continuously longer than a day, but does not appear to work as expected for shorter running scripts (e.g. script starts up at 20:30 2015-01-14, runs for 5 minutes and exits, then runs again at 02:30 2015-01-15; the log file does not get rotated when the script runs on a new day).

Perl info: 

perl -v

This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for MSWin32-x
+64-multi-thread

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Module info: 

ppm list --no-header --matching Log- --fields name,version

Log-Dispatch             2.42
Log-Dispatch-FileRotate  1.11
Log-Log4perl             1.46
Log-Message              0.08
Log-Message-Simple       0.10

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Below are two small example programs that rotate the log file every minute.
Runs continuously for a minute+1 second and rotates as expected:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.018;
use Log::Dispatch::FileRotate;
use Log::Log4perl qw/:easy :no_extra_logdie_message/;
use strict;
use warnings;

local $/ = undef;
Log::Log4perl::init(\<DATA>);

local $| = 1;
INFO("LOG 1: Sleep for 61 seconds");

for ( 1 .. 61 ) {
    print "\b\b$_";
    sleep 1;
}

INFO("LOG 2: Done");
1;

__DATA__
# Layout for logging
# [Date] [Priority] [File::Caller] [Line Number] > Message \n
layout_pattern = [%d{yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss}] [%p] [%F{1}::%M] [%L] > %m 
+%n

##
## LOGGERS
##
log4perl.logger = INFO, LogRotate

# Logging to file
# - Rotates every minute
# - Last 8 minutes kept
# (Only INFO level priority and higher messages are logged to file)
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.layout.ConversionPattern = ${layout_patter
+n}
log4perl.appender.LogRotate             = Log::Dispatch::FileRotate
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.filename    = Timed_Rotate.log
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.layout      = Log::Log4perl::Layout::Patte
+rnLayout
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.max         = 8
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.mode        = append
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.DatePattern = yyyy-MM-dd-HH-MM

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Called every minute+1 second and does not rotate the log file as expected:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.018;
use Log::Dispatch::FileRotate;
use Log::Log4perl qw/:easy :no_extra_logdie_message/;
use strict;
use warnings;

local $/ = undef;
Log::Log4perl::init(\<DATA>);

local $| = 1;
INFO("LOG 1: Sleep for 61 seconds");
1;

__DATA__
# Layout for logging
# [Date] [Priority] [File::Caller] [Line Number] > Message \n
layout_pattern = [%d{yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss}] [%p] [%F{1}::%M] [%L] > %m 
+%n

##
## LOGGERS
##
log4perl.logger = INFO, LogRotate

# Logging to file
# - Rotates every minute
# - Last 8 minutes kept
# (Only INFO level priority and higher messages are logged to file)
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.layout.ConversionPattern = ${layout_patter
+n}
log4perl.appender.LogRotate             = Log::Dispatch::FileRotate
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.filename    = Timed_Rotate.log
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.layout      = Log::Log4perl::Layout::Patte
+rnLayout
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.max         = 8
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.mode        = append
# 'log4j' style doesn't work as expected
log4perl.appender.LogRotate.DatePattern = yyyy-MM-dd-HH-MM
# ... neither does 'Date::Manip' style
# log4perl.appender.LogRotate.DatePattern = 0:0:0:0:0:1:0

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Called (assuming code was saved in a file called "test.pl")via: perl -E "local $|=1;`test.pl`; for(1..60){print qq|\b\b$_|;sleep 1;} `test.pl`;"

I am not quite sure what is going on here. Did I do something wrong? Do I have a flawed understanding of how Log::Dispatch::FileRotate is suposed to work?

Thank you for your time.

In reply to [SOLVED] Log::Log4perl and Log::Dispatch::FileRotate: Issues rotating log files based on date pattern by ateague

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