Tianyu Li created LOGBACK-1458: ---------------------------------- Summary: TimeBasedRollingPolicy with MaxHistory would not delete log file created by startup with 0 size Key: LOGBACK-1458 URL: https://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1458 Project: logback Issue Type: Bug Components: logback-core Affects Versions: 1.1.11 Environment: spring-boot: 1.5.4 jdk: "1.8.0_181" Red Hat 4.8.5-28 Reporter: Tianyu Li Assignee: Logback dev list Priority: Minor TimeBasedRollingPolicy with MaxHistory would not delete log file created by startup with 0 size. logback.xml {code:java} <appender name="TRANSACTION_LOG" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender"> <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy"> <FileNamePattern>${LOG_DIR}/transaction_%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH}.log</FileNamePattern> <MaxHistory>5</MaxHistory> </rollingPolicy> <encoder> <pattern>%msg%n</pattern> </encoder> </appender> {code} before rolling: {code:java} -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 28 08:23 transaction_2019-02-28-08.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 28 10:02 transaction_2019-02-28-10.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13466 Feb 28 17:43 transaction_2019-02-28-17.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 530 Feb 28 19:04 transaction_2019-02-28-19.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 530 Feb 28 20:25 transaction_2019-02-28-20.log {code} after: {code:java} -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 28 08:23 transaction_2019-02-28-08.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 28 10:02 transaction_2019-02-28-10.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4563 Mar 1 03:35 transaction_2019-03-01-03.log {code} issue: transaction_2019-02-28-08.log and transaction_2019-02-28-10.log havent been deleted they were created in startup with no content -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.3.1#73012)