Apache James Log4j2 duplicate appender definitions - log4j2

After configuring Apache James 3.7.2 with spring wiring, I noticed that the log4j2 xml configuration file defines the MAILETCONTAINER appender 4 times.
https://github.com/apache/james-project/blob/3.7.x/server/apps/spring-app/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
<RollingFile name="MAILETCONTAINER" fileName="${logDir}/james_mailetcontainer.log"
<RollingFile name="MAILETCONTAINER" fileName="${logDir}/james_mailetcontainer.log"
<RollingFile name="MAILETCONTAINER" fileName="${logDir}/james_mailetcontainer.log"
<RollingFile name="MAILETCONTAINER" fileName="${logDir}/james_mailetcontainer.log"
<Logger name="org.apache.james.mailetcontainer" additivity="false">
<Logger name="org.apache.james.mailetcontainer" additivity="false">
<Logger name="org.apache.james.mailetcontainer" additivity="false">
<Logger name="org.apache.james.mailetcontainer" additivity="false">
Is this simply a misconfiguration?
I have deleted the duplicate entries on my local server and the logging behaviour appears to not have been adversely affected.

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log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalHttpClient)

I've implemented a simple Java app that uses httpclient 5.1.3. I'm also using log4j2 (2.1.9) and have configured it emit log entries at the wire level. I know the log4j2 config is loaded because I can see my file appender working when I emit log messages from my app.
I don't understand why httpclient logging reports no appenders for org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalHttpClient or for the asynch class if I change my app to use asynch protocol. Please help.
My log4j2 config:
<Appenders>
<Console name="Console">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d %-5level [%logger] %msg%n%xThrowable" />
</Console>
<File name="MyFile" fileName="c:/a/app.log">
<PatternLayout>
<Pattern>%d %p %c{1.} [%t] %m%n</Pattern>
</PatternLayout>
</File>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Logger name="org.apache.hc.client5.http" level="DEBUG">
<AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
</Logger>
<Logger name="org.apache.hc.client5.http.wire" level="DEBUG">
<AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
</Logger>
<Logger name="org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalHttpClient" level="DEBUG">
<AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
</Logger>
<Root level="INFO">
<AppenderRef ref="MyFile" />
</Root>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>
I could sure use some help. Thanks.

Names of log archives generated using Log4j2

Here i am trying to implement Log4j2 archival strategy using DefaultRollOverStrategy. Basically i want to have number of archive files being generated once size of actual file crosses 10Mb.
With current programmatic configuration i am able to do so, but problem here is archived file name is not reflecting accurate time part.
For example, over the period log archives are generated but time part(highlighted) is not changing
Sample-2019-12-02_17-09-37-1.log
Sample-2019-12-02_17-09-37-2.log
Sample-2019-12-02_17-09-37-3.log
Sample-2019-12-02_17-09-37-4.log
I am sharing XML representation of configuration generated grammatically, rather than XML based config.
<Configuration name="RollingBuilder" status="DEBUG">
<Appenders>
<RollingFile name="XYZRollingFileAppender" fileName="logs/Sample.log" filePattern="logs/Sample-${date:yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss}-%i.log" createOnDemand="false">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{ISO8601} %5p %c{1} - %m%n"/>
<Policies>
<CronTriggeringPolicy schedule="0 0 0 * * ?"/>
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="10MB"/>
</Policies>
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="100"/>
</RollingFile>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Root level="ERROR">
<AppenderRef ref="XYZRollingFileAppender"/>
</Root>
<Logger name="com.sample.test" level="ERROR">
<AppenderRef ref="XYZRollingFileAppender"/>
</Logger>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>```

Can I keep rolling file in log4j2 even though the log is empty

I have a program in java to write log using log4j2 that configured in xml configuration file.
Can I keep rolling file in log4j2 even though the log is empty. I need to use the archived log generated by log4j2. Now the archived log is only created if the log is not empty, if there is no log then the archived is not created. But I want log4j2 to keep generated the log even there is empty log. Any advice?
Here is my code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Appenders>
<RollingFile
fileName="logs/app-%d{yyyyMMdd}.log"
filePattern="logs/$${date:yyyy-MM-dd}/app-%d{yyyyMMdd}-%i.log.gz"
name="app_file">
<PatternLayout>
<Pattern>%d %p %m %ex%n
</Pattern>
</PatternLayout>
<Policies>
<OnStartupTriggeringPolicy />
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
size="100 MB" />
</Policies>
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="20" />
</RollingFile>
<Console name="stdout" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %highlight{%class{1.}:%L} [%c] [%p] %m%n" />
</Console>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Logger additivity="false" includeLocation="true"
name="app">
<AppenderRef ref="app_file" level="trace"/>
<AppenderRef ref="stdout" level="trace"/>
</Logger>
<Logger level="error" name="com.ulisesbocchio.jasyptspringboot">
</Logger>
<Logger level="error" name="org.springframework">
</Logger>
<Root includeLocation="true">
<AppenderRef ref="stdout" />
</Root>
</Loggers>
I also added some code below in my java code
System.setProperty("Log4jContextSelector",
"org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLoggerContextSelector");
Seems that the file only roll over when something is written into the file. I think that basically you should do some customization, here are 2 options:
Set a timer, log empty string periodic to trigger the roll over.
Override the RollingFile and roll over file whatever you want.

Log4j2 daily log files

I want my log files created by log4j2 to have the date pattern in their file name, including the current active file. That is, if todays date is 2016-12-15, I want the current log-file to be lager-2016-12-15.log. When the date changes, I want a new file to be created named lager-2016-12-16.log.
With RollingFileAppender I am not able to get the current active log file to have date pattern in the filename. My Log4j2.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration>
<Properties>
<Property name="layoutPattern">%d{ISO8601} [%t] %-5p [%X{REQUEST_ID}] [%X{CLIENT_ID}] [%X{USER_ID}] %c- %m%n</Property>
<Property name="logDir">${sys:catalina.home}/logs/</Property>
<Property name="fileName">${logDir}lager-${date:yyyy-MM-dd-HHmm}.log</Property>
<Property name="filePattern">${logDir}lager-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HHmm}.log</Property>
</Properties>
<Appenders>
<RollingFile name="LAGER" append="true"
fileName="${fileName}"
filePattern="${filePattern}">
<PatternLayout pattern="${layoutPattern}" charset="UTF-8"/>
<Policies>
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true"/>
</Policies>
</RollingFile>
</Appenders>
<loggers>
<Logger name="org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]" level="WARN" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="LAGER" />
<AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE"/>
</Logger>
<Root level="INFO">
<AppenderRef ref="LAGER"/>
<AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE"/>
</Root>
</loggers>
</Configuration>
With this config the copying when it rolls over is messed up. Removing the date pattern from the fileName property fixes this, but the the current file does not have the date in its name.
I am running this on a tomee 7.0.1.
There may already be an outstanding feature request for this. Would this match your requirements? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1101
If so, please comment on that JIRA ticket. If you're able to contribute a patch (ideally with unit test) it is likely to get resolved quickly.

Log4j2 RollingFile appenders clashing

Log4j2 RollingFile appenders clashing
Below is a simplified debug version of our log4j2 configuration file (We rollover nightly not every minute!).This configuration, instead of it creating a Rollover file each minute (as per theTimeBasedTriggeringPolicy) will create one rollover file (non-tarred), containing JSON formatted logging, which will be overwritten every 20KB(although it will end up being slightly greater than 20KB (See Screenshot).We also get the following errors (abbreviated with "..."):-
2016-10-07 08:47:34,433 default-workqueue-4 ERROR Unable to copy file /.../logs/logFile-2016-10-07-08:47:11.log to /.../logs/logFile-2016-10-07-08:47:11.log: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException /.../logs/logFile-2016-10-07-08:47:11.log
If we switch the order of the timeBasedRollingFileJsonLayout appender and the sizeBasedRollingFilePatternLayoutWithZippedArchive appender then no rollover occurs at all.
If we remove the sizeBasedRollingFilePatternLayoutWithZippedArchive appender then the timeBasedRollingFileJsonLayout appender works as expected.
We have the two different appenders for different environments, where the logs may or may not be hooked up to ELK.In our real log4j2 config file we use properties to select the appropriate appender for the environment.I have removed the properties from this file for clarity and to rule them out as a possible cause of the problem.
We are using log4j 2.6.2.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="WARN">
<Appenders>
<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %logger{36} - %msg %n" />
</Console>
<RollingFile name="timeBasedRollingFileJsonLayout" append="true" fileName="logs/logFile.log" filePattern="logs/logFile-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH:mm}.log">
<JSONLayout properties="true" compact="true" eventEol="true" />
<Policies>
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
</Policies>
</RollingFile>
<RollingFile name="sizeBasedRollingFilePatternLayoutWithZippedArchive" append="true" fileName="logs/logFile.log" filePattern="logs/logFile-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log.gz">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %logger{36} - %msg %n" />
<Policies>
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="20KB" />
</Policies>
</RollingFile>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<logger name="logger.one" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="timeBasedRollingFileJsonLayout" />
</logger>
<Logger name="logger.two" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="timeBasedRollingFileJsonLayout" />
</Logger>
<Logger name="logger.three" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="timeBasedRollingFileJsonLayout" />
</Logger>
<Root level="info">
<AppenderRef ref="timeBasedRollingFileJsonLayout" level="all" />
</Root>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>
I am at a loss to understand why you think this should work. You have two appenders trying to write to the same file trying to rollover based on different criteria and rollover to files with different names. It is no surprise that you are getting the file is in use error since two things have it open at once.

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