In this recipe, we will learn how to target the log statement output of your application to a periodic file handler. This is different from the file-handler, in that when the running system reaches a pre-defined time (that is, hour change, day change, and so on), the log file rolls, backing up itself and creating a new file with the same characteristics.
For the sake of simplicity, we will try our recipe with WildFly running in the standalone mode.
If you didn't follow the previous recipe, we will need to create a standalone configuration for our recipe, as follows:
$ cd $WILDFLY_HOME $ cp -a standalone std-logging
To test our logging configuration, we will need an application to log some statements. In this case, we will use the application named logging. To obtain the artifact to deploy, please refer to the Software prerequisites recipe in Chapter 1, Welcome to WildFly!.
Now, let's start WildFly, as follows:
$ cd $WILDFLY_HOME $ ./bin/standalone...