please look at the extension supplied here: http://www.simonsite.org.uk
It supports rolling by size and or by date as well as supports archiving. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Andrew Thorburn <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm fairly sure this isn't possible, but I figured I should check, just in > case. > > Currently, I have the DRFA set up to roll the log files over at > midnight each day. Nice and simple. However, they all currently wind > up in the same directory, which is not ideal. What I would prefer is > for each month to have a separate directory, so the directory > structure would be like so: > > <BASEDIR> > |----2008 > |----01 > |----02 > |----03 > . > . > . > |----2009 > |----01 > |----02 > |----03 > . > . > . > etc. > > Just makes it a little easier to find the log file I'm looking for, as > there could easily be hundreds of them. Obviously, if Log4J can't do > this, then I can either live with it or write my own appender. > > On a related note, is there any facility in Log4J to have it compress > old log files? I've currently got my own log file archiver (written > outside of Log4J, and tied rather heavily to an in-house application), > but if Log4J provides this facility, I might be better off using that > instead. > > Thanks, > > - Andrew Thorburn > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
