Thanks for posting that (I don't follow the mailing list too closely and missed it). I like the current implementation if your patch that has MaxDateRollBackups of 4 keeping
foo.2010-06-17.log foo.2010-06-16.log foo.2010-06-15.log foo.2010-06-15.1.log foo.2010-06-15.2.log foo.2010-06-14.log I guess the question would be - are the developers interested in folding this into the main branch or are we stuck with making our own patched version? Thanks, Mike From: Michael Schall [mailto:mike.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:57 AM To: Log4NET User Subject: Re: Too many log files I worked on a solution to this that we are using in production... I posted it on the list without much response... You are welcome to try this... http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.logging.log4net.devel/885/match=rolling+files+date+time+boundaries+doesn't+support+maximum+number+backup On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Rob Richardson <rob.richard...@rad-con.com<mailto:rob.richard...@rad-con.com>> wrote: Thanks for your reply! I quote a reply to that thread below: I suspect the difficulties deleting files rolled only by date is that the appender would need to take into account the DatePattern used when locating files to be considered for deleting. Counted backups (log.txt.1, log.txt.2, log.txt.3, etc.) are easier to deal with because integer sequences are more well-known. I'm not aware of any efforts to support rolling of files based on RollingMode.Date. I would be happy with counted backups, as mentioned in that reply. How do I set my rolling file appender to do that? Thanks again! RobR ________________________________ From: Lansdaal, Michael T [mailto:michael.t.lansd...@boeing.com<mailto:michael.t.lansd...@boeing.com>] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 12:33 PM To: Log4NET User Subject: RE: Too many log files This post (http://www.l4ndash.com/Log4NetMailArchive%2Ftabid%2F70%2Fforumid%2F1%2Fpostid%2F17575%2Fview%2Ftopic%2FDefault.aspx) says that maxSizeRollBackups does not work if you set RollingStyle to RollingMode.Date (and another post I saw says it as "rollingStyle of Date does not support maxSizeRollBackups). I have implemented my own directory cleaning code in application to clean out log files older than a certain date. Thanks, Mike From: Rob Richardson [mailto:rob.richard...@rad-con.com<mailto:rob.richard...@rad-con.com>] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:37 AM To: Log4NET User Subject: Too many log files Log4net is ignoring the maximum number of files for my rolling file appender: <appender name="RollingFile" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender"> <file value="HeatingModelScheduler.log" /> <appendToFile value="true" /> <param name="MaxSizeRollBackups" value="5" /> <param name="DatePattern" value=".yyyy-MM-dd.lo\g" /> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> <conversionPattern value="%date - %message%newline" /> </layout> </appender> Why do I now have six old log files? Thank you very much. RobR
