Re: [Log4cplus-devel] DailyRollingFileAppender does not honor maxBackupIndex

[Václav Z. <wi...@us...>]

On 02/25/2012 12:34 AM, Deepak Muley wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
>  
>
> I am using DailyRollingFileAppender with PatternLayout , with
> maxBackupIndex as 10 and with schedule as DAILY.
>
> It was observed that Log4cplus does not delete the backup files after
> 10 days. It keeps creating more.
>
>  
>
> For quick debugging I enabled log4cplu internal logging with schedule
> set as MINUTELY and found that here also it does not create files with
> .1…n which inturn (per code) won’t be found when it comes to deleting
> them after reaching maxBackupIndex.  
>
>  
>
> Is this a bug and if anybody else has any solution?
>
This is not a bug. See
<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1257117&group_id=40830&atid=429073>
for detail.

>  
>
> Here’s the output from log4cplus logging:
>
> log4cplus: Just opened file: E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-49 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-49 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-50 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-50 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-51 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-51 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-52 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-52 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-53 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-53 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-54 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-54 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-55 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-55 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-56 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-56 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-57 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-57 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-58 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-58 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-59 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-07-59 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-00 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-00 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-01 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-01 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-02 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-02 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-03 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-03 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-04 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-04 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-05 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-05 
> log4cplus: Renaming file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-06 
> log4cplus: Renamed file E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log to
> E:\testlogs\TestLog_p360.log.2012-02-24-08-06 
>
>  
>
> Thanks.
>

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VZ