Hello Herrmann
I don't think that works right now - at least not in a way such that I would trust it. The trouble lies in situations where the application is stopped for an arbitrary amount of time. It might become computationally intensive to find every file created by the logger and the chance of getting false positives is high and thus files might get deleted that shouldn't be deleted at all. The overall consensus on this topic was (and probably is) that the rolling file appender must be rewritten. But that's an open issue for quite a long time now. The reason for that is probably that the current implementation of the rolling file appender works just fine for most use cases and the missing features were no show-stopper to anyone yet. :) JMTC Cheers Von: Herrmann, David G [mailto:david.g.herrm...@intel.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2014 23:32 An: 'Log4NET User' Betreff: Rolling File Appender by date I have my log4net configured to roll the file each day. Is there a way to specify the maximum number of files to keep before they get deleted? In other words, can I use the following when rolling based on Date: <maxSizeRollBackups value="10" /> Or is that only available when rolling the file based on size? Thank you. -Dave Herrmann
