It sounds like the "delaycompress" option from logrotate: http://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate
On 9 April 2014 09:46, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > Log4j currently compresses the files when it rolls them over. Of course > you can cause that to happen based on time, but it sounds like you want the > time of rollover and time of compression to be separate. If so, I am not > sure you really need to tie the compression activity to Log4j, or at least > the appender at all. You just need something that monitors the directory > and looks for files over a certain age and then compresses them, deletes > them, or whatever. > > If I’ve misunderstood what you are asking please let me know. > > Ralph > > On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Manuel Teira <manuel.te...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm evaluating a switch to log4j-2 since my application is required to > > rollover files by age and size (for what the composite triggering > policies > > come handy). The rollover files shall also be compressed, but only those > > reaching a given age. > > > > What would be the preferred approach to achieve that using log4j-2? > Should > > be reasonable to write a custom rollover strategy or is there any other > way > > out-of-the box that may work? > > > > Thanks and best regards, > > > > Manuel. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
