There's a ticket open at http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCORE-147 that is causing a problem for me; I'm willing to have a look at submitting a patch for this, along the lines of the suggestion I made in the ticket. I'll reproduce the comment I made here to save people looking ... 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 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. Is there a better solution? Would I be wasting my time looking at this? Thanks, Greg