i made 3 extensions to DailyRoling file appender:
1) dated => the current logfile will also include the date and will not be 
renamed on rolling
2) compressing => old logs are compressed.
3) "cleaning" => stupid name but it will delete all files ending with zip which 
are older than the given max date.

you can have a look at it and write your own appender which does exactly what 
you want. it's not difficult... 
you probably should do some tests tough

http://www.nabble.com/file/5911/log4jCompressingAppender-src.zip

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> Von: DM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. März 2007 17:23
> An: Log4J Users List
> Betreff: Re: maxBackupIndex with DailyRollingFileAppender
> 
> 
> Thanks for the response. I guess I'll have to wait for 1.3 
> then. The following page on the wiki:
> http://wiki.apache.org/logging-log4j/DailyRollingFileAppender
> 
> indicates that somebody has extended 
> DailyRolloingFileAppender to include this feature, but I'm 
> not sure if this has been included in an official release?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: James Stauffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Log4J Users List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, 1 March, 2007 11:04:10 AM
> Subject: Re: maxBackupIndex with DailyRollingFileAppender
> 
> 
> In 1.2 no, but I think that is supported in 1.3.  In 1.2 you could set
> up a cron job to delete the extra files.
> 
> On 3/1/07, DM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When using a DailyRollingFileAppender, is there any way to 
> specify the maximum number of files which should be kept? I 
> know that the RollingFileAppender supports a maxBackupIndex 
> property, but it seems this is not supported by 
> DailyRollingFileAppender. I don't want to use 
> RollingFileAppender because I want the files to rollover 
> every day, rather than when they reach a certain size. So my 
> requirements are:
> >
> > - Roll files over daily
> > - Only keep the last 5 log files
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> > DM
> >
> >
> >
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