Re: [Unity-idm-discuss] limit number of log files

[Sander A. <sa....@fz...>]

Hi Krzysztof,


Am Dienstag, den 30.05.2017, 08:55 +0200 schrieb Krzysztof Benedyczak:
> Hi Sander,
> 
> W dniu 29.05.2017 o 12:26, Sander Apweiler pisze:
> > Hi Krzysztof,
> > 
> > I want to limit the number of logiles. I know there is an option
> > log4j.appender.NAME.MaxBackupIndex for RollingFileAppender. I
> > tested
> > with log4j.appender.LOGFILE.MaxBackupIndex=30 but it didn't work.
> > Is
> > the another option to limit the number of logfiles?
> 
> Another option is cron ;-)
Sure cron would be an option.
> 
> Regarding MaxBackupIndex - what appender do you use precisely? 
> org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender or
> org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender?
> 
>  From what I recall (but used it looong ago) MaxBakupIndex was only 
> working on the first one. 2nd is from log4j-extras (also included in
> Unity).

I use the second one. Now I know why it did not work.

Thanks for your answer,
Sander
> 
> HTH,
> Krzysztof
> 
> 
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