[logback-user] MaxHistory does not delete old files

27 May 2010

      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

[logback-user] MaxHistory does not delete old files

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