Vista - how to rename/remove log file used by process

Hello-

I have one log file server.log which is beeing generated by Java
application. since the log file grows every minutes, I want to roll over
this file every day at mid night si that I can debug the issues using old
logs which whould have entries for 24 hrs only.

I have .cmd script to copy the file with server.log.yyyy-mm-dd formate every
day at 11.59 pm.00 but I can't roll over the main file becouse it is in used
by the java application. I tried rename/delete command but whenever I run the
command it gives me error '' file can't rename/delete becouse it is used by
another process' and server.log file becoming huge in size also it is
defficult to debug entire log for days or weeks.

please let me now if it is possible to archive the log and create a new log
file every day.

Thanks, Ajay
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system administrator

Ajay Kumar schreef:is it possible to restart you application?

it will create a new server.log when it restarts....