Hi Erick,
1> how did you install/run your Solr? As a service or "regular"? See
the reference guide, "Permanent Logging Settings" for some info on the
difference there.
What is the difference between "regular" or "service"?
2> what does your log4j.properties file look like?
Here are the contents in the log4j.properties file:
# Logging level
solr.log=logs
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, file, CONSOLE
log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x
[%X{collection} %X{shard} %X{replica} %X{core}] \u2013 %m%n
#- size rotation with log cleanup.
log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=4MB
log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=9
#- File to log to and log format
#log4j.appender.file.File=${solr.log}/solr.log
log4j.appender.file.File=C:/solr_logs/solr.log
log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p - %d{yyyy-MM-dd
HH:mm:ss.SSS}; [%X{collection} %X{shard} %X{replica} %X{core}] %C; %m\n
log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=WARN
log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop=WARN
# set to INFO to enable infostream log messages
log4j.logger.org.apache.solr.update.LoggingInfoStream=OFF
I am not sure how best I can limit the size of the solr_logs directory. Does
log4j come with a feature to remove old log files with a given retention period?
Best regards,
Adrian Liew
-----Original Message-----
From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 11:36 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Solr old log files are not archived or removed automatically.
1> how did you install/run your Solr? As a service or "regular"? See
the reference guide, "Permanent Logging Settings" for some info on the
difference there.
2> what does your log4j.properties file look like?
Best,
Erick
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Adrian Liew <adrian.l...@avanade.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am using Solr v.5.2.1 on my local machine. I realized that old log files
> are not removed in a timely manner by log4j. The logs which I am referring to
> are the log files that reside within solr_directory\server\logs. So far I
> have previous two months' worth of log files accumulated in the log
> directory. Consequently, this causes my directory grow to such large sizes. I
> will need to manually remove the old log files which is undesirable.
>
> Is this is a bug with Solr or a missing configuration that needs to be set?
>
> As far as I know, all Solr Logging configuration is done in the
> solr_directory\server\resources\log4j.properties
>
> Appreciate the soonest reply.
>
> Thanks.
