Agreed that this seems a common use case. Looking at the
LOG4J2-435<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-435> ticket,
you're now the third person asking for this feature...
Team, what about adding a maxAge attribute to DefaultRolloverStrategy? The
attribute would accept values like "3d" (delete older than 3 days),
similarly "4w" (4 weeks), "5M" (5 months) etc.
The scanned directory would be the parent dir of the rolled over file
specified by the {{filePattern}} attribute, and any file in that directory
would be candidates for deletion.
Thoughts?
On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Arkin Yetis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had opened the following for this:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-435
> Perhaps you can see if this would meet your need and vote for/watch it, if
> it does.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Kireet <[email protected] <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the update. So I would need to use an external process to
> clean
> > up older files? This seems like a pretty common use case though right?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/1/14 12:19 AM, Remko Popma wrote:
> >
> >> Kireet, you can find more details on the Jira ticket but to summarize,
> >> you need to configure a SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy for the %i pattern to
> be
> >> useful.
> >> If you do so, only "max" files are kept _within the same time period_.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Remko Popma
> >> <[email protected]<javascript:;>
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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]<javascript:;>>
> 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>
> >>>>
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