Log4net RollingFileAppender doesn't roll over anymore after a couple of weeks

Question

Hello,

I'm using log4net (v1.2.9.0) in a web project. Everything works like a charm, but after a couple of weeks the RollingFileAppender stops to roll over. Instead every log message is appended to the same file which therefore has a giant size by now.

Here is my log4net configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<log4net>
  <appender name="RollingLogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
  <param name="File" value="C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Application Data\\CAPServer\\log\\CWSServer.log"/>
  <param name="AppendToFile" value="true"/>
  <param name="MaxSizeRollBackups" value="50"/>
    <param name="RollingStyle" value="Date"/>
    <param name="DatePattern" value="yyyyMMdd"/>
    <param name="StaticLogFileName" value="true"/>
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
   <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss} [%t] %-5p %c{1} - %m%n"/>
  </layout>
 </appender>
 <root>
  <level value="ALL"/>
  <appender-ref ref="RollingLogFileAppender"/>
 </root>
</log4net>

Can you help?

Thanks in advance, Rocko

Answer 1

A couple of things to try from the documentation on http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/sdk/log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender.html:

Try removing the entry for MaxSizeRollBackups.

CAUTION
A maximum number of backup files when rolling on date/time boundaries is not supported.

Try clearing out the directory of all log files.

CAUTION
Changing StaticLogFileName or CountDirection without clearing the log file directory of backup files will cause unexpected and unwanted side effects.