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How to prevent log files from being overwritten when attempting to capture an intermittent problem.

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When a problem is intermittent it may be necessary to increase the amount of data stored in trace logs to avoid overwriting the information being captured by circular logs. How can the number and size of log files be increased in both log4j and JUL logging (5.5.6 and later)?

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