Re: Undeploying problem with Tomcat 5.5 and Log4J

[Mikolaj Rydzewski]

Gilbert, Antoine wrote:

I deploy an application WAR on a Tomcat 5.5 instance. This application
use Log4j (via commons-logging) and create some logs in a file within
the related Web app directory (/webapps/myWebApp). The file is defined
by a file appender tag in my log4j.xml file.

It's a good practice to avoid writing files inside application's directory. It's also a good practice to have separate directory for logfiles, i.e. ${CATALINA_HOME}/logs.

The problem is when I undeploy this Web app, my Web app directory can't
be deleted because of the log file; it seems to be locked by Tomcat.

Try to call shutdown() http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/LogManager.html#shutdown() in contextDestroyed event in servlet context listener.

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