[LOG4J2-480] TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy with limited number of files

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta9
• Component/s: Appenders

Environment

Linux, Java 1.7, Maven

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joe Merten
• Created: 28/Dec/13 03:15
• Updated: 28/Dec/13 06:36
• Resolved: 28/Dec/13 06:36

Description

In my application, I need a RollingFile-Appender with a TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy (e.g. 1 file each day with a filePattern="log-%d(yyyy-MM-dd).log").
The oldes logfiles should been erased automatically when a limit is reached (e.g. max 100 files).

On the first view, it looks that this could be configured using:

  <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="100"/>

but for me it looks, that this setting does not work within this context.

I have quite spend a few hours to solve this requirement but failed for now.
For may be i'd done wrong things, could you give a small sample log4j2.xml which do this job?

Issue Links

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