From the web site - If you don't want compression remove .gz from the
filePattern.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration status="warn" name="MyApp" packages="">
<appenders>
<RollingFile name="RollingFile" fileName="logs/app.log"
filePattern="logs/$${date:yyyy-MM}/app-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log.gz">
<PatternLayout>
<pattern>%d %p %c{1.} [%t] %m%n</pattern>
</PatternLayout>
<Policies>
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="250 MB"/>
</Policies>
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="20"/>
</RollingFile>
</appenders>
<loggers>
<root level="error">
<appender-ref ref="RollingFile"/>
</root>
</loggers>
</configuration>
On Sep 3, 2013, at 1:50 AM, Alexei Pomelov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm migrating from proprietary logging backend to the Log4j and failed to
> configure the same behavior.
>
> I need to configure appender that will create log files with these three
> requirements:
> -- log file name: "application_%d{yyyyMMddHHmmss}.log"
> -- limit maximum log file size
> -- limit maximum number of files
>
> I've already tried a lot of configurations, but could satisfy only two
> requirements of three :(
> Is it possible without patching the appender itself?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards, Alexey
