I customized the class to do exactly that.  I put each day's logs in
it's own directory and when the day rolledover, I called a
deleteOldDirectories() method that deleted the directories I no longer
needed.  

My implementation method was to create a date string for each of the
past N days that was the same format as the string that was used to
create the directory.  I then deleted all the directories at the
appropriate level that weren't in that set of strings.  

alan

-----Original Message-----
From: WRIGHT, STEPHEN (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:18 AM
To: Log4J Users List
Subject: Using MaxBackup with DailyRollingFileAppender

I'm using DailyRollingFileAppender because I want to physically separate
the log messages for each day. I'd also like to do something similar to
the MaxBackupIndex in RollingFileAppender so that I only keep the last 7
days of log files.

Any suggestions on how to limit the number of log files that get created
by DailyRollingFileAppender?

Thanks,
Steve

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