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in reply to Log4perl log rotation in threadpool environment

Maybe you can:

  1. copy the existing log file to a new name
    e.g. copy log_file to log_file.2012-11-16
  2. truncate the log file
  3. Optionally zip the archive file

That way the file handle for the log file doesn't change.

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