How to limit the number of log using jboss-log4j and daily appender

[hari_jboss]

Hello, My first post:

I am using jboss 4.3 and using jboss-log4j.xml for logging. Currently its rotating server.log Daily at 12:00 am, but it keeps logs for ever. I want to limit the number of logs i.e. lets say 15 days

Please lemme know how to do that?

This is what i am using :

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<appender name="FILE" class="org.jboss.logging.appender.DailyRollingFileAppender">
      <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
      <param name="File" value="${jboss.server.log.dir}/server.log"/>
      <param name="Append" value="false"/>
      <param name="MaxFileSize" value="300KB"/>
      <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="5"/>
      <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd"/>
      <layout>
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%c] %m%n"/>
      </layout>
   </appender>

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Thanks

Harry

[peterj]

I recall someone asked this a while ago but I cannot locate the post. Anyway, there is no way to configure Log4J to limit the number of logs created with the DailyRollingFileAppender. The best you could do is write a script that deletes the oldest log file(s) and set that script to run automatically every day.

You could use a RollingFileAppender instead - it creates a new log file once the log file reaches a certain size, and you can tell it how many log files to retain.

[hari_jboss]

Thanks For Quick reply. I will then need to use Sizebased appender, thanks.