From your configuration the limit is 5 per rollover interval. You are specifying an interval of one day. Are you getting more than 5 per day?
Ralph > On Nov 16, 2017, at 1:44 AM, Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki (JIRA) > <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2121?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel > ] > > Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki updated LOG4J2-2121: > ----------------------------------------------- > Description: > Dears, > > I have very simple configuration of the RollingFile appender > > > {code:xml} > <RollingFile name="RollingFile" > fileName="${env:LOG_DIR}/${application}/endpoint.log" > > filePattern="$${env:LOG_DIR}/$${application}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/endpoint-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log"> > <PatternLayout> > <Pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n</Pattern> > </PatternLayout> > <Policies> > <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy /> > </Policies> > <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="5"/> > </RollingFile> > {code} > > This configuration works partly good. Every day there is created file in > folder _YYYY-MM_. > That is expected. > What is not expected - it is that the process is not limited at all. I mean > there are more than 5 files in all folders. > > Questions: > Is it something wrong with configuration? > is max=5 considered to be the numeber of files or folders (in my case months)? > or max=5 is ignored at all. > > I had read some hints in: [How does Log4j2 DefaultRolloverStrategy's max > attribute really > work?|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24551768/how-does-log4j2-defaultrolloverstrategys-max-attribute-really-work] > > Thanks in advance for help. > > was: > Dears, > > I have very simple configuration of the RollingFile appender > > > {code:xml} > <RollingFile name="RollingFile" > fileName="${env:LOG_DIR}/${application}/endpoint.log" > > filePattern="$${env:LOG_DIR}/$${application}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/endpoint-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log"> > <PatternLayout> > <Pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n</Pattern> > </PatternLayout> > <Policies> > <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy /> > </Policies> > <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="5"/> > </RollingFile> > {code} > > This configuration works partly good. Every day there is created file in > folder _YYYY-MM_. > That is expected. > What is not expected - it is that the process is not limited at all. I mean > there are more than 5 files in all folders. > > Questions: > Is it something wrong with configuration? > is max=5 considered to be the numeber of files or folders (in my case months)? > or max=5 is ignored at all. > > Thanks in advance for help. > > >> DefaultRolloverStrategy max = 5 does not limit nuber of files >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Key: LOG4J2-2121 >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2121 >> Project: Log4j 2 >> Issue Type: Question >> Environment: Linux RedHat >> Reporter: Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki >> >> Dears, >> I have very simple configuration of the RollingFile appender >> {code:xml} >> <RollingFile name="RollingFile" >> fileName="${env:LOG_DIR}/${application}/endpoint.log" >> >> filePattern="$${env:LOG_DIR}/$${application}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/endpoint-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log"> >> <PatternLayout> >> <Pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n</Pattern> >> </PatternLayout> >> <Policies> >> <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy /> >> </Policies> >> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="5"/> >> </RollingFile> >> {code} >> This configuration works partly good. Every day there is created file in >> folder _YYYY-MM_. >> That is expected. >> What is not expected - it is that the process is not limited at all. I mean >> there are more than 5 files in all folders. >> Questions: >> Is it something wrong with configuration? >> is max=5 considered to be the numeber of files or folders (in my case >> months)? >> or max=5 is ignored at all. >> I had read some hints in: [How does Log4j2 DefaultRolloverStrategy's max >> attribute really >> work?|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24551768/how-does-log4j2-defaultrolloverstrategys-max-attribute-really-work] >> Thanks in advance for help. > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.4.14#64029) >
