[SOLR-12144] Remove SOLR_LOG_PRESTART_ROTATION and leverage log4j2

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 7.4, 8.0
• Component/s: scripts and tools
• Assignee: Jan Høydahl
• Reporter: Varun Thacker
• Created: 27/Mar/18 00:35
• Updated: 08/Jun/19 15:15
• Resolved: 03/Apr/18 11:13

Description

With log4j2 rotating the file on restart is as simple as adding a policy - OnStartupTriggeringPolicy

So we can remove Solr logic which does the same and exposes it via SOLR_LOG_PRESTART_ROTATION .