[LOG4J2-656] How to delete rolled over folder older than six months.

• Type: Question
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-rc1
• Component/s: Appenders
• Labels: Rollover

Environment

Java 7

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: sivan
• Created: 27/May/14 10:07
• Updated: 07/Dec/21 01:43
• Resolved: 11/Jul/14 11:20

Description

My application is using Rolling file appender. So the log files are daily rolled over to the folder having name yyyy-MM. ie 2014-03, 2014-04, 2014-05 etc. Now the requirement is to delete 6 months older folder from the path.

Is there any configuration to achieve this?

The current configuration is as below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<properties>
<property name="logPattern">%c|%K

{sessionId}

|%t|%d

{MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS}

|%p|%C|%M|%L|%K

{msg}

%n</property>
<property name="filePattern">${sys:logfilepath}//$${date:yyyy-MM}//${sys:oft.appserver}out%d

{yyyy-MM-dd}

.log</property>
<property name="fileName">${sys:logfilepath}//${sys:oft.appserver}-out.log</property>
</properties>
<appenders>
<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout pattern="logPattern"/>
</Console>
<RollingFile name="RollingFile" fileName="${fileName}" filePattern="${filePattern}">
<PatternLayout>
<pattern>${logPattern}</pattern>
</PatternLayout>
<Policies>
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
</Policies>
</RollingFile>
</appenders>
<loggers>
<AsyncLogger name="logtype" level="info" includeLocation="true" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="RollingFile"/>
</AsyncLogger>
<root level="info">
<AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
</root>
</loggers>
</configuration>

Issue Links

• duplicates: LOG4J2-435 Feature request: auto-delete older log files