[ http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCORE-147?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.i... ] Greg Thomas commented on LBCORE-147: ------------------------------------ I'm seeing the same problem; can I suggest an alternative, simpler, solution instead of having a persistent list of log files. Currently, if maxHistory=5 and the system is quiescent over the weekend so no logs are produced then ... 2011-02-17: Log file created (Thursday), log file for 2011-02-12 deleted if exists. 2011-02-18: Log file created (Friday), log file for 2011-02-13 deleted if exists. (2011-02-19: Saturday - No activity) (2011-02-20: Sunday - No activity) 2011-02-21: Log file created (Monday), log file for 2011-02-16 deleted if exists. This leaves the files for the 2011-02-14 and 2011-02-15 lying around. I'd suggest that a new optional setting is added, "maxHistoryGap" that indicates how far back the old old log files should be deleted (default value=0). If set to 2 (to cope with weekends). This would result in ... 2011-02-17: Log file created (Thursday), log files for 2011-02-12, 2011-02-11, 2011-02-10 deleted if exists. 2011-02-18: Log file created (Friday), log files for 2011-02-13, 2011-02-12, 2011-02-11 deleted if exists. (2011-02-19: Saturday - No activity) (2011-02-20: Sunday - No activity) 2011-02-21: Log file created (Monday), log files for 2011-02-16, 2011-02-15, 2011-02-14 deleted if exists. I may be able to submit a patch to this effect, if the solution is acceptable.
RollingPolicy MaxHistory not deleting old files -----------------------------------------------
Key: LBCORE-147 URL: http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCORE-147 Project: logback-core Issue Type: Bug Components: Rolling Affects Versions: 0.9.18 Environment: linux 2.6.18 64bits apache-tomcat-6.0.20 java/jre1.6.0_18 Reporter: Rafael Diaz Maurin Assignee: Ceki Gulcu
The MaxHistory does not do the trick : the old files are not deleted at all : cat logging.xml <appender name="IDP_ACCESS" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender"> <File>/shibboleth-idp/logs/idp-access.log</File> <Append>false</Append> <ImmediateFlush>true</ImmediateFlush> <RollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy"> <FileNamePattern>/shibboleth-idp/logs/old/idp-access-%d{yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm}.log.gz</FileNamePattern> <MaxHistory>3</MaxHistory> </RollingPolicy> <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout"> <Pattern>%msg%n</Pattern> </layout> </appender>
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