Re: [logback-user] MaxHistory does not delete old files

27 May 2010

      You should add the following to the beginning of your config file to see 
logback's attempts, if any, at deleting the files:

<statusListener 
class="ch.qos.logback.core.status.OnConsoleStatusListener" />

Is your application long-lived or short-lived? Does it come up for a 
short while and shut down?

On 27/05/2010 5:07 PM, viral wrote:
...
Hello.
This was reported in previous versions on logback that MaxHistory does not
delete old files.
This bug is still present in 0.9.21.
I tried numerous of configs and nothing.
example :
   <appender name="STD"
   class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
     <Append>true</Append>
     <File>${log.dir}/log.log</File>
     <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
       <pattern>%date{HH:mm:ss} %msg%n</pattern>	
     </layout>
     <rollingPolicy
     class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
       <fileNamePattern>${log.arch.dir}/log%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>
  <MaxHistory>5</MaxHistory>	
     </rollingPolicy>
   </appender>
I have also tried :
  <TimeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedFNATP">
   <MaxHistory>5</MaxHistory>
  </TimeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy>
And still old files were not deleted. Can anyone advice ?
I do smth wrong ?
Being desperate I will delete all those files in my java code.
greets
Tomasz

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