Glassfish 7.1 "loses" logs in the daily rotation

[szarza]

GlassFish Version (and build number)

7.1.0

JDK version

21

OS

Red Hat

Database

No response

Problem Description

With the following log configuration (daily rotation):

set-log-attributes org.glassfish.main.jul.handler.GlassFishLogHandler.rotation.rollOnDateChange=true
set-log-attributes org.glassfish.main.jul.handler.GlassFishLogHandler.rotation.compress=true
set-log-attributes org.glassfish.main.jul.handler.GlassFishLogHandler.rotation.maxArchiveFiles=20
set-log-attributes org.glassfish.main.jul.handler.GlassFishLogHandler.file=/var/log/cestel/calypso/server.log

After the rotation, the logs are left with only these three lines:

[2026-01-04T00:00:00.002076+01:00] [GF 7.1.0] [INFO] [] [] [tid: _ThreadID=76 _ThreadName=log-rotation-timer-for-GlassFishLogHandler] [levelValue: 800] [[
  Rolling the file /var/log/cestel/calypso/server.log; output was originally enabled: true]]

[2026-01-04T00:00:00.007391+01:00] [GF 7.1.0] [INFO] [] [] [tid: _ThreadID=76 _ThreadName=log-rotation-timer-for-GlassFishLogHandler] [levelValue: 800] [[
  Archiving file /var/log/cestel/calypso/server.log to /var/log/cestel/calypso/server.log_2026-01-04T00-00-00]]

[2026-01-04T00:00:00.009401+01:00] [GF 7.1.0] [INFO] [] [org.glassfish.main.jul.rotation.LogFileArchiver] [tid: _ThreadID=548 _ThreadName=old-log-files-cleanup-server.log] [levelValue: 800] [[
  File /var/log/cestel/calypso/server.log_2026-01-04T00-00-00 of size 899 has been archived to file /var/log/cestel/calypso/server.log_2026-01-04T00-00-00.gz of size 364 in 1 ms]]

...and therefore, the day's logs are "lost".

Steps to reproduce

1. Configure GlassFish with the following commands to set up daily rotation.
2. Generate activity.
3. Wait until the next day for the rotation to occur.

Impact of Issue

The following day, the daily activity logs were not found in the file server.log_YYYY-MM-DDT00-00-00.gz,
where YYYY-MM-DD was the day of the activity.

[dmatej]

Hmm, interesting, could it be a race condition of the rotation and archiver? I will check.