> You could take advantage of all the placeholder variable substitution
> features for environment-specific config values.
OK, so I could do something like ...
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="${sys:log-files-to-keep}"/>
But, given that log4j is initialised before I've managed to to call
System.setProperty("log-files-to-keep", "42"); I don't think it will help
as the DefaultRolloverStrategy will already be initialised.
Greg
On 16 August 2016 at 17:37, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> You could take advantage of all the placeholder variable substitution
> features for environment-specific config values.
>
> The language is whatever is supported by javax.script.ScriptEngineFactory.
> JavaScript comes out of the box, and Groovy is another common one, so it's
> mentioned as an alternative.
>
> And that last thing is probably a typo.
>
> On 16 August 2016 at 11:12, Greg Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I had seen that, yes; I'm not sure it will help.
> >
> > What I really want to do is trigger (programmatically) a purge of old
> files
> > (because I've added a DefaultRolloverStrategy with the max files set),
> >
> > AFAICT the <delete> action will let me programmatically control which
> files
> > are deleted (e.g. files older than some value set at runtime), but only
> > during the rollover - so it may be some time before that happens (if at
> > all, if the process is restarted frequently enough that the max size is
> > never reached).
> >
> > The background to this is that we have a WAR file that is deployed to a
> > number of different sites. The number of files we want to keep on each
> site
> > can differ so rather than edit the XML file on each site each time we
> > deploy a new version, there's a site specific configuration (with a
> > pre-configured default) that is programatically applied. Perhaps there's
> a
> > better way to do that.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > PS. I can't see any documentation on supported values for the "language"
> > attribute; is it just JavaScript and Groovy as per the docs, or are there
> > others?
> > PPS. Why is JavaScript capitalised, but not groovy?
> >
> > On 16 August 2016 at 16:45, Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Have you looked at http://logging.apache.org/
> log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.
> > > html#Log_Archive_Retention_Policy:_Delete_on_Rollover <
> > > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.
> > > html#Log_Archive_Retention_Policy:_Delete_on_Rollover>?
> > >
> > > Ralph
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Aug 16, 2016, at 6:53 AM, Greg Thomas <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to programatically trigger a purge?
> > > >
> > > > I've got an XML configured appender along the lines of ...
> > > >
> > > > <Appenders>
> > > > <RollingFile name="rfappender" fileName="../logs/output.log"
> > > > filePattern="../logs/output.%i.log.zip">
> > > > <PatternLayout>
> > > > <pattern>%d %-5p [%c{1}] %X - %m%n</pattern>
> > > > </PatternLayout>
> > > > <Policies>
> > > > <OnStartupTriggeringPolicy />
> > > > <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB"/>
> > > > </Policies>
> > > > </RollingFile>
> > > > </Appenders>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > i.e. create new log file on startup, and when the current one reaches
> > > > 100MB. There is no "max" number of files to keep
> > > >
> > > > I've also got, in code, something that adds a DefaultRolloverStrategy
> > > with
> > > > the maximum number of files to keep. However, because we already
> > created
> > > a
> > > > new file (appender.log.nn.zip) on startup, we've probably already
> > > exceeded
> > > > that number, so I'd like to purge it immediately.
> > > >
> > > > I can't see a way to do that - any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
>
