The RollingFileAppender does not have compression support built-in. What should happen if I set my rolling log file size to 200mb? Should my application stop responding until the compression process is complete?
According to this page: http://tinyurl.com/q48hv http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/sdk/log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender.MaxSizeRollBackups.html The MaxSizeRollBackups property is "the maximum number of backup files that are kept before the oldest is erased". Are you able to roll files on a daily basis then run another program every day to compress old log files? There may be general purpose command line utilities that do this already. --- Michael Schall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way with the rollingfile appender to have it compress > itself as it is rolling to the next file? I would name my logs by > date, and would like the old files to compress (zip, cab, some format > readable without extra installs) as a new file is being created. > > Also, is it possible to have a max number of files saved? We would > like to only keep the last x days of logs. > > So day to day the files would be compressed and after x days, the > compressed files would be removed. > > Is this possible currently, or planned in the future? > > Mike >
