log4j DailyRollingFileAppender question

[Benjamin Hundley]

Does the DailyRolingFileAppender in log4j roll over if the program is not continuously running? I have a batch job written in Java that runs once a day and it is not continuously running. I am using log4j for logging. I have it configured to roll over each day and each new day that it runs it does not roll over to a new log file. It just appends to the old existing log file from the previous day. Does the program need to be continuously running for this feature to work?

[m coffee]

In our experience, once a rolling file appender is correctly configured, it creates a new file on each day change.

What is your configuration for the dailyrollingfileappender?