How to configure logging and logs rotation in Reuters Bridge

ReutersBridge provides the possibility to set up logging and logs rotation by configuring its own config.cfg and/or log4cxx.properties file.

Configuring config.cfg file

The following parameters in the config.cfg file are related to logging:

Parameter	Description	Example
App.DailyBackup.Enable	Enables daily backup Valid values: true/false	App.DailyBackup.Enable = true
App.DailyBackup.Source	The path to the directory which needs to be backed up	App.DailyBackup.Source = logs/
App.DailyBackup.Destination	The path to the backup directory	App.DailyBackup.Destination = logs/backup/
App.DailyBackup.Exclude	File(-s) which needs to be excluded from the backup This parameter is very useful if you work with start/stop schedule configuration. In order to avoid request of information resend about all the deals from TOF Server by ReutersBridge during its restart, ReutersBridge needs to remember the information about the last deal. So, using App.DailyBackup.Exclude parameter you can exclude files, that keep this information, from being backup'ed.	App.DailyBackup.Exclude = reuters.bridge.log;storage.xml

Configuring log4cxx.properties file

In addition, the ReutersBridge package contains the log4cxx.properties configuration file from the log4cxx logging framework for C++ (patterned after Apache log4j). It provides a huge number of possibilities to configure logging and logs rotation.

The full documentation can be found here: http://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/usage.html

The section about logs rotation is here: http://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/apidocs/classlog4cxx_1_1_daily_rolling_file_appender.html