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Notice in the following output (cygwin) that the messages log is not getting "shifted". Noticed this since I encountered an exception and restarted IDE to see if it would reproduce before filing an issue. (didn't repeat, so I lost the backtrace/log that refactoring dialog requested.) I notice that 6.1 has the same behavior in .../dev/var/log. /log/ $ pwd /erra/.netbeans/6.0/var/log /log/ $ ls -ld . drwx------+ 2 erra None 0 Jan 13 09:55 . /log/ $ ls -lt total 4300 -rwx------ 1 erra None 2792192 Jan 13 09:52 uigestures -rwx------ 1 erra None 28766 Jan 13 09:48 messages.log -rwx------ 1 erra None 1467168 Nov 21 11:43 uigestures.1 -rwx------ 1 erra None 37656 Nov 15 10:52 messages.log.1 -rwx------ 1 erra None 65281 Nov 15 10:18 messages.log.2 /var/ $ ls -lt log total 4292 -rwx------ 1 erra None 16384 Jan 13 09:59 messages.log -rwx------ 1 erra None 2792192 Jan 13 09:52 uigestures -rwx------ 1 erra None 1467168 Nov 21 11:43 uigestures.1 -rwx------ 1 erra None 37656 Nov 15 10:52 messages.log.1 -rwx------ 1 erra None 65281 Nov 15 10:18 messages.log.2 Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.0 (Build 200711261600) Java: 1.6.0_03; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_03-b05 System: Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86; Cp1252; en_US (nb) Userdir: C:\Documents and Settings\erra\.netbeans\6.0
Reassigning to "logger" for evaluation.
I'm surprised at the priority being lowered to 4; this problem reduces the ability of the netbeans community to file complete and/or effective issues.
It works fine in current dev build 090401. Closing as WORKSFORME. I started IDE 3 times. It looks like for every IDE start new messages.log is created and previous are shifted: [log]> ll total 364 -rw-r--r-- 1 mslama mslama 25395 2009-04-01 13:16 messages.log -rw-r--r-- 1 mslama mslama 25396 2009-04-01 13:13 messages.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 mslama mslama 25395 2009-04-01 13:12 messages.log.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 mslama mslama 267114 2009-04-01 13:16 metrics -rw-r--r-- 1 mslama mslama 8365 2009-04-01 13:16 uigestures Please reopen if you find any problem.
Closing