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[Log4cplus-devel] Max. Age of DailyRollingFileAppender

[Malcolm S. <Mal...@Pr...>]

I've been looking to see if there are any requests to add a "maxAge"
type of property to DailyRollingFileAppender, but the only thing I can
find (via google) is related to log4j.

 

I need daily logs, but I need them to be automatically deleted after 31
days.

 

Is this in the pipeline ?

 

Mal

Re: [Log4cplus-devel] Max. Age of DailyRollingFileAppender

[Václav H. <v.h...@sh...>]

 On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:43:31 +1000, Malcolm Smith wrote:
> I've been looking to see if there are any requests to add a "maxAge"
> type of property to DailyRollingFileAppender, but the only thing I 
> can
> find (via google) is related to log4j.
>
> I need daily logs, but I need them to be automatically deleted after
> 31 days.
 You could emulate this using a cron job (as this sounds like some sort 
 of long running server thing).

>
> Is this in the pipeline ?
 I have added it to my TODO list but I cannot promise anything.

>
> Mal

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 VH

Re: [Log4cplus-devel] Max. Age of DailyRollingFileAppender

[Alexander N. <neu...@kd...>]

On Tuesday 28 June 2011, Malcolm Smith wrote:
> I've been looking to see if there are any requests to add a "maxAge"
> type of property to DailyRollingFileAppender, but the only thing I can
> find (via google) is related to log4j.
> 
> 
> 
> I need daily logs, but I need them to be automatically deleted after 31
> days.

What I am doing is I create filenames for the logfiles so that they contain 
the day of the week (e.g. MyLogFile-Monday.log), this way I always have the 
log files from one week around.
Maybe this could also work for you ?

Alex

Re: [Log4cplus-devel] Max. Age of DailyRollingFileAppender

[Malcolm S. <Mal...@Pr...>]

Possibly, except on our client side the number of days to keep could be
anything from 7 to 365.....

Sometimes these logs are only for general INFO+ logging, but at other
times it could be to troubleshoot problems that are random - hence we
need debug logs for an undetermined period of time.

I really need this build into log4cplus rather than an external process
because it could be used on a server or a user PC.

Out of interest, how are you generating those filenames ?  Is the 'File'
option configurable ?

Mal

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Neundorf [mailto:neu...@kd...] 
Sent: Wednesday, 29 June 2011 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Log4cplus-devel] Max. Age of DailyRollingFileAppender

> I need daily logs, but I need them to be automatically deleted after 
> 31 days.

What I am doing is I create filenames for the logfiles so that they
contain the day of the week (e.g. MyLogFile-Monday.log), this way I
always have the log files from one week around.
Maybe this could also work for you ?

Alex