Kireet, I can reproduce this and I've raised https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-524 to track the issue. I'll add comments to that Jira ticket as I make progress.
Best regards, Remko On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Kireet <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to use the rolling file appender in log4j2, basically I want > to roll at midnight daily and keep 3 old log files. New files are created > properly, but log4j doesn't seem to be cleaning up the old files. Does > log4j only support cleanup of files within the time period? Here is the > relevant portion of the config. I tried things with and without the %i > pattern. > > <RollingFile name="Event" fileName="app.log" > filePattern="app-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.log"> > <PatternLayout> > <Pattern>%m%n</Pattern> > </PatternLayout> > <Policies> > <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true"/> > </Policies> > <DefaultRolloverStrategy compressionLevel="0" max="3"/> > </RollingFile> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
